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Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
about 21 hours ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
1 day ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
1 day ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
2 days ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Submitted

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
2 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
3 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
3 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
3 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Add PDFSPOTR to OGL/370

PDFSPO was added with PQ43723. That APAR was closed in 2000-12-11. I suggest adding PDFSPOTR to OGL/370 (similar to AFPRSC)
3 days ago in Printsw / Other 0 Submitted

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