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Enhance INGPLEX IPLINFO to Display System Shutdown History and Downtime Analytics

The current INGPLEX IPLINFO display provides the IPL timestamp indicating when a system was last started. However, there is no corresponding information showing when the system was shut down, making it difficult to quickly determine outage duratio...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Z NetView Submitted

Stream Log Files to Loki

Rewe wants to stream log files directly to Grafana Loki without going through Kafka, doing a conversion from SplunkHEC in Grafana Alloy or using Open Telemetry.
about 1 hour ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Submitted

Add wildcard support to CEMT DISCARD PROGRAM, allowing batch discard of autoinstalled programs (e.g. PROGRAM(ABC*) DISCARD) to simplify troubleshooting, deployments, and problem determination in large CICS environments.

Suggested safeguards: Require a minimum of three explicit characters before a wildcard. Reject commands such as: CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) DISCARD Prevent discard operations against IBM-supplied resources. Example: CEMT SET PROGRAM(DFH*) DISCARD Optiona...
about 23 hours ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

Add ability to customize disconnect page to the user home screen.

Add ability to customize disconnect page to the user home screen.  Have the ability to include links
about 23 hours ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Submitted

Require TRANSID in DB2ENTRY and automatically create DB2 transaction mappings. Eliminate manual DB2TRAN definitions to reduce duplication, administrative overhead, and DB2ENTRY/DB2TRAN conflicts.

Today, CICS requires administrators to maintain both DB2ENTRY and DB2TRAN definitions. In large environments, this frequently results in hundreds or thousands of DB2TRAN resources associated with a small number of DB2ENTRY definitions. I propose m...
about 24 hours ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

INGREST should support PATCH method

I want to update our CMS repository with current/new values, using its API with json objects.To do this, I need PATCH  as HTTP-method to change only new attributes of my json object. I can't use PUT, as the object is to big and to error-prone...
1 day ago in IBM Z System Automation Submitted

Providing a functional enhancement for DEDB PITR recovery using non-standard image copies(ie. FlashCopy) in the future to prevent or reduce increases in elapsed time.

Due to a fix in APAR PH64901 (PTF=UI99762: shipped in January 2025), the internal specifications have been changed.  In cases where PITR is specified for DEDB recovery, even when using non-standard image copies (such as SMS IC) and USEAREA, &...
1 day ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery Submitted

CTG Explorer Connection/Worker Timeout, timestamp of last timeout

CTG Explorer Connection/worker Timeout, column for timestamp of last timeout. There is a counter for each; but don't know when last one occurred. If had a timeout, what was the last time it happened; would be good in quickly reviewing gateway stat...
1 day ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer Submitted

support for all access including utilizing Entra ID Groups for IntelliMagic

Enable IntelliMagic to fully support Microsoft Entra ID group-based authorization, allowing user and admin access to be managed through Entra ID security groups instead of locally maintained accounts and roles. This would simplify access governanc...
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

-Xdump:tool (or any JVM option that spawns a child process via fork/exec/posix_spawn) is not supported in an IMS JMP/JBP dependent region.

We face a problem to call a REXX when something goes wrong with ou JMP region. No problem with the same workflow in Batch. Clearly a limitation we want to avoid Last update of the case: The Java team has asked that the IMS team take ownership of ...
2 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM Submitted

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