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Change GA date of new GDPS releases

Is there a reason why GDPS doesn’t release new releases in September to coincide with the new release of z/OS ? Would it be possible for GDPS to move to releasing software in the (same) September timeframe ? I ask as (we), Citi, time our builds of...
8 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Showing LPAR memory from GDPS panel Standad Operations

From GDPS Standard Operations , we can deactivate/activate an LPAR but we don't see the STORAGE allocated , would it be possible to add it ? Also , we can see the CF from GDPS (same panel), could you add some information around memory (allocated,I...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Use of generic character in SET TRANSID for CBAC

We are planning the migration from CA DADS to CICS Batch Application Control and faced the need to convert CICS commands like “CEMT SET TRANSID(XX*),ENABLESTATUS(DISABLED)" allowed in DADS,too, as CBAC command using “SET TRANSID”, that is the only...
over 3 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

Setup jwt based authentication to connect zCEE

Hi Team, We would like to build API's from zCEE and display API callgraphs but to access our Production zCEE , we need to setup jwt (json web token) based authentication between ADDI and Prod zCEE but as per IBM case - ADDI is only having basic au...

Add environment variable or equivalent, dummy DD (?), such that a PLIDUMP call can check the existence of the envvar and call Fault Analyzer as part of its processing.

In much earlier versions of Fault Analyzer a zap was provided to the PLIDUMP code such that IDISNAP (Fault Analyzers dynamic call interface) could be invoked as part of a PLIDUMP call, without having to modify the application code. This is no long...
almost 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

GDPS - DASD Config to Allow FC Sessions

Hello IBM,In case TS003773513 we were testing the GDPS Metro 4.1 Preserve Mirror Tool and came across a problem which we had never seen with GDPS/PPRC 3.14 and its version of the PMT. The IBM case above stated that with 4.1 the PMT (which is now i...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

GDPS ReIpl with Activate

New funktion in GDPS standard action.ReIpl with activate.
almost 9 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Netview ALLOCATE does not permit Concatenations

The Netview allocate command only permits the ability to allocate one dataset to a file name.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

160x62 large session TN3270E TCP/IP support

Hi, (This RFE is in relation to TS005782734). I am trying to replace our vtam /sna connections ( 160x62) in supersession with TCP/IP connections. I'm following this section from the SuperSession basic configuration guide:...IBM CL/SuperSession 3.1...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration