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    Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

    Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
    over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

    It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    Customer AI Use Case - Improving OMEGAMON AI for z/OS to detect anomalies of Bad Capping impacting online workloads

    Alerting on significant divergence of CPU consumption per Capping Group to detect potential bad capping leading to interference with the transactional workload. Context : System Engineers generally have hundreds of workloads to monitor and applyin...
    6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Add jobid to the M5ASCPUTLH table and then displayed in KM5ASP5H workspace

    To make it easier to find jobs with same job name in Omegamon history, it would be very helpful to have jobid added to M5ASCPUTLH table and display in KM5ASP5H workspace.
    5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
    about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

    Bypass combined DBRC UNAUTH request for multiple AREAs

    /DBR DB and /DBR AREA commands can issue the DBRC UNAUTH request for a list of AREAs, the maximum number of AREAs in one list being 160. When the UNAUTH request is isseued for a list of AREAs, the RECON can be reserved for a long period of time. T...
    about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

    Requirement for IBM EKMF: Implementation of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Using RSA Tokens

    Enhancing Security Protocols for EKMF Agents and DB2 Database Access Background IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation (EKMF) currently authenticates users via a single-factor method, requiring only a username and password. This process grants a...
    4 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Under review

    zSecure - User defined character set for PHRASE when using C4R.USER.=ATTR

    With OA64290 the ability was introduced to define in the APPLDATA for C4R.USER.=ATTR PHRASE. That support is great as it allows to generate by default passphrases instead of passwords. However, zSecure generates a passphrase selecting all characte...
    over 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Command Verifier 2 Future consideration

    Refresh application programs in a MPR with persistent JVM

    IMS with MPP with persistent JVM. CANCEL_PGM=NO and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. The Language Environment enclave remains active during all the MPR lifetime in order to keep t...
    over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

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