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Bring SQL-Compiler-Suboptions into LoadModule, especially ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)

We try to find out whit compiler options are used for some programs on load library. When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the us...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Need to filter on Jobs that are NP - NOP oper

There is a need to filter on operations that have been set to NP in panel ID EQQSOPFP. This would be much like filtering on operations set to MH (Manual Hold) NP - NOP (no operation). IWSz will set the status of the operation to complete when the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Query and Set the Fence status of Db2 IMS and VSAM for GDPS CA workload

This is will be a useful command to query the fence status of the databases, before the switch process, Also ability to set fence / unfence the databases to put it back in a right state so the next workload switch will work without failure
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

Make IZPCA RMMand SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Profile Path, Icon Path, Embedded Macro Variable usage

Macro “include” statement under PCOMM Allow the use of the macro “include” statement so we can include the “global.mac” file they built in some of the more complex Macros. This was in version 12 and 13 from macros HCL built but in version 14 it fe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Hash Tables

It should support the following basic operations: - Create - Insert - Delete - Search
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Tree data structures

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … There are many types of tree data structures. At first, basic binary trees should be supp...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release