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HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
19 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
7 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
about 1 hour ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Create INODE version upgrade tool.

Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
about 13 hours ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
1 day ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDz DB2 Tooling. Increase the DDL text limitation when viewing Native Stored Procedures DDL source in IDz. Currently capped at 32K bytes.

In order for IDZ 16.0.4 or greater to be an effective development tools for z/OS DB2 Native stored procedures, it must be able to process NSPs with DDL greater than 32K. We have many if not most NSPs falling into this category The following error ...
3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Submitted

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
12 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Update the product to use SMF Exit IEFU86

The SMF Exits that this product uses (IEFU83 & IEFU84) were discontinued in our environment in favor of the updated SMF Exit IEFU86. We can't go back to the old Exits and would need the product to be updated to use the IEFU86 Exit for collecti...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

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