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SQL Language Support for Internal RDS Tables

Enhance Systems Automation(SAzOS) to allow Sequential Query Language(SQL) against internal table data. Enabling the use of the powerful SQL language would provide at least these benefits:• A universally recognized language to access table data.• S...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

User wants to access directly to SPL files without generating PDFs (not always)

PDF files require a lot of storage space that could be saved this way
12 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

National characters are not supported under Metadata column in AD Analyze Client

When using REST API functions to place data under the Metadata column within AD Analyze Client we do see that this function does not support national characters.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Server 5.4 Documentation for Async Service Domain

Fault analysis software like SmartScope, AbendAid and Fault Analyzer require an understanding of the various control block, anchors and domains when post processing system failures (SVC Dumps). APIs and SPIs are not available when analyzing SVC Du...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add filtering to Statistic Reports

I believe it would be useful to add filters to both List and Summary Statistics report. For example, report on a given transaction when looking at transaction stats. Or only report transactions that have an ATTACH>0. For file stats it could be ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists

include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

The GDPS shutdown process of multiple LPARs today are done in parallel, however the monitoring of the progress of each LPAR is done serially. Since the shutdown is done in parallel, the checking should also be done in parallel so if a timeout occurs the GEO288A message is issued at the time of the timeout and not serialized.

To speed up the shutdown process and be notified of potential timeouts sooner so they can be actioned.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

CPSM WLM Optimized Mode inter-SYSPLEX

Enhance Region Status Server communication from CPSM's WLM Sysplex Oprimized Mode, enabling information synchronization between SYSPLEX.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

HOD / iACS Macro language extensions

Working on some iACS macros for data import. Urgently missing a functionality to* convert integer to hex and vice versa* open a text file on workstation, read data and insert into fields on 5250 display* grab data from 5250 display and write to te...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

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