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Customer would like to have DataPower support for resume Tpipe. Have Front side Handler for ICON (Resume Tpipe support)

Customer applications are using ISRT ALTPCB and Datapower only supports ICAL and customers have to revise applications. It is a bottleneck to deploy Datapower to customers . It would be awesome if Datapower can support Resume Tpipe and nothing wil...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

LPEX / Eclipse : Enable context-sensitive help for C/C++ and assembler

The functionality is already present for Cobol and PL/I - it seems logical to also have it for C/C++ and assembler (at least for the IBM macros, but would certainly be cool for individual instructions too). In a nutshell, place cursor on "printf",...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Cross hair support in the 3270 Host emulator Cursor RDz

The 3270 emulators ( PCOMM for example), supports Cross-Hair cursor ( also called Cross Line - where you have vertical and Horizontal lines in the 3270 cursor) , and we request the same feature in the 3270 Host emulator of RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Possibility to specify two EQAUOPTS datasets in eqaprof.env

Copied from case: Hello, I'm setting up STC EQAPROF and was wondering if you could specify more than one pattern in the variable default_dsname. At the moment it looks like this:default_dsname="É&USERID.DLAYDBG.EQAUOPTS" We would like it to be...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to determine if any CICS transactions have debug session active

Currently there is no way to query if any CICS transaction have debug sessions active
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage
over 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

CA7 jobs scheduled ID with 000 should be available for ca7 impact analysis in ADDI analyse client.

We have most of the batch jobs defined/scheduled in ca7 with SCHID 000 but in ADDI analyse client SCHID 000 is unavailable for impact analysis. with out that half of the jobs will be unavailable for ca7 in ADDI impact analysis and that will impact...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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