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Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
2 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
2 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Submitted

Additional fields for MIPS and MSU's on one screen and Job Class

Kyndryl client Sagent Lending is converting from Mainview and they need these requirements to manage their LoanServ app and client requirements
2 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Submitted

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
25 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
3 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
3 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
21 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Submitted

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
20 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted