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Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
2 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
2 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
2 months ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Add MASHIST management to CICS Explorer

Now, it is only possible to SUSPEND or RESUME Historical Data Collection thru the WUI or via CMCI command. It would be helpful that CICS Explorer was able to handle (view and update the state) the MASHIST resource.
31 minutes ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 0 Submitted

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
about 3 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Submitted

CUZCLOUD active task queue persistence across restart.

In case of a restart of the CUZCLOUD STC the active task queue is cleared. This doesn't permit to close safely the STC in case of planned outage of one of its components (z/OS, network, storage, HW) or unplanned events. At the restart of the STC w...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Submitted

IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
1 day ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
1 day ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
2 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

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