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    IMS Catalog utility FABXCATM has no exclude option during DECODE IMS DBD or PSB Source

    FABXCATM is only allow wild card option to DECODE DBD and PSB from IMS catalog and cannot exclude specific member level option. Please add this new function.
    7 days ago in IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS  / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

    IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

    TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

    As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Future consideration

    PCOM FTP client file size limitation

    PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Future consideration

    Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

    Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

    zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

    For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

    Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

    IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

    Kerberos support for pcomm 3270 sessions

    For 5250 Sessions kerberos is implemented and available. Since we have customers running pcomm to connect to z-Series with 3270 sessions we would like to have kerberos support for the 3270 session types.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

    Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

    Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

    Need PCOMM FTP to support implicit TLS (no AUTH TLS)

    Currently the PCOMM FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be n...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

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