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Load Profile Data Pull and Modification

The zHMC Ansible Playbooks are great. Ansible can come in and validate or modify profiles for an enterprise. However, if a team is upgrading mainframes they may need to create and validate many LPARs load profiles for fast IPLs. By allowing for zH...
about 15 hours ago in Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z / IBM Z HMC collection Submitted

GDPS support for a 3-way Copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
2 days ago in GDPS Submitted

GDPS support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
2 days ago in GDPS Submitted

In a GDPS MM (Metro Mirror) environment, when Site 2 disk is unavailable (like a warm start), temporarily change the relationship from MM to GM (Global Mirror) so I/O to primary (Site 1) disk is not on hold.

Temporarily change MM to GM when Site 2 DS8K is having issues. Once Site 2 had recovered, wait 5 minutes before switching the relationship back to MM.
2 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Allow -o option to extract the tar archive with the running user as file owner

In wazideploy-generate the tar archive is currently extracted without using the -o option. This means that the file owner will be kept as it was when the package was build.When a different user is used for the deployment than the user that is runn...
2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Submitted

Enhance z/OS Connect, IMS, CICS and Db2 to support RACF identity token for authentication

There is a capability in zOS called RACF identity tokens. There is article about using this in Db2 here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/jim-pickel/2024/05/15/token-authentication-in-db2-13-for-zos and more info here: https://www.ib...
3 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Implement field expansion for ADABAS the same way as DB2

This feature is very important to analyze the impact that we have on the ADABAS database side, the same way we have from DB2. This will improve the view from the Application overall architecture, in order to give a full coverage for the users and ...
4 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Submitted

Add time zone to results of query_license

The results of query_license show military time. However, the expiry time (i.e. Expiration column) of the licenses are almost certainly in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or GMT+0). While the times of the "currently active sessions" (i.e. LoginTime colum...
4 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment Submitted

WAPL Getdates output in ISPF rather than HTML

when using wapl getdates it output is only viewable as a calendar view via a HTML file (docu.html attached ) which needs to be opened in a browser . my idea is to introduce a way we can get a calendar view within the mainframe session itself , lik...
4 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Submitted

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