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The communication between DWC & DB2 (any RDBMS) needs to be encrypted)

When using the DWC for querying the Historical or Statistical tables the communication should be configurable to use encryption - TLS.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

TranClass Queue Expiration Time

Improve the Transaction Class queue to accept defining an expiration time for transactions queued waiting for 1st dispatch. This enhancement will provide de CICS to manage the queue only for transactions that still need to execute and it would rel...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CICS statistics fields sometimes turn negative or don't make sense

One of the fields this problem happens to is Storage Manager: Dynamic Storage Areas Statistics field SMSGMREQ ( Getmain Requests ). By common sense, this field should never be negative. But the Cobol version of DFHSMSDS defines this field as signe...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Include User Fields in DWC Monitor Workload job column.

We need to have a column in DWC with the user field enabled in Monitor Workload (job and critical job). This column should be editable to write and see comments about the job manage. In ISPF pannel this field can enable in handling error pannel, s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 3 Future consideration

Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

User defined constants

Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavors of SQL (T-SQL AND Oracle SQL). Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Attribute view for a single CICS region. We would like the ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions similar to the way other Region Attributes c...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Modify Status Command gives no response to the Requester

Via our System-Automation we monitor the TWS-Trackers and the TWS-Controller. Every hour the status of the systems is retrieved via the modify status command. The output of the command is only written to the syslog. The requester gets no response....
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDZ V14.2.0 Browsing a remote sequential file not possible unlike TSO

In Remote Systems view (z/OS Projects perspective), if I open a remote file to edit it, my colleagues can neither browse nor view this file whereas if they work directly with TSO they can read the file in browse or view mode. IDZ displays a pop-up...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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