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AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis for IBM Z Decision Support

I propose adding an AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis capability to IBM Z Decision Support to help organizations gain deeper visibility into relationships between IBM Z workloads, applications, system resources, and...
33 minutes ago in IBM Z Decision Support Submitted

Implement missing eclipse plugin features in VSCode plugin

Today APA VSCode provides only PDF format report, which is sometimes hard to follow from user perspective. Implement similar interactive gui like report like Eclipse plugin has.
about 2 hours ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS Submitted

Implement functionalities in VSCode extension

Implement missing functionalities as File Manager eclipse plugin has in VSCode, ex: Copy File Load module info Export to excel by copy
16 minutes ago in File Manager for z/OS Submitted

Allow High Performance Image Copy to use the IMS Catalog Staging Directory

Issue: The inability for HPIC to utilize the staging directory is costing us up to 45 minutes of additional outage time. Scenario: With BMC, when we added new areas to the end of a sequential database, we were able to perform the following tasks p...
about 15 hours ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

Enhance IMS HP Image Copy by expanding history reporting capabilities

TSYS would like IBM to consider updating the IMS HP Image Copy utility by capturing additional history data at run time. We hope that additional functionality will be added to the utility that would allow it to produce the 200-byte history records...
about 19 hours ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

Implement missing eclipse functions in z Open Debug VSCode

We'd like to see similar missing features as in eclipse in VSCode debugger extension. Ex: Skip to location Conditional breakpoint Set entry breakpoint in included module from navigation tree
about 23 hours ago in Debug for z/OS Submitted

Intelligent Software Dependency Mapping and License Impact Analysis for IBM Z Software Asset Management

I propose adding an Intelligent Software Dependency Mapping and License Impact Analysis capability to IBM Z Software Asset Management to help organizations gain deeper visibility into relationships between software assets, system resources, applic...
1 day ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

Add SPURGE column to CICS Explorer Local Transaction Perspective

Would be good to view Transactions without SPURGE=YES.
1 day ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Functionality already exists

Change the displays commands for the server from Modify to Display

The users that can execute displays commands are going to be able to see details of the RSED started task so metrics could be easily taken from the product without the necessity of a person with a higher power like modify commands in z/OS. These a...
2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer Submitted

Implement internal client certificate handling in BAQCSTUB for Outbound API Requesters

Our z/OS connect instances require client certificate logins, which affects also local batches that utilize BAQCSTUB implementation. We have security requirements that different batches must utilize their own client certificates for their authoriz...
2 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

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