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add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Support Left/Right Control Key Mapping for Remote Connection Emulator for Improved Adoption of Migrating User from Host Connection Emulator

I have created Remote Connection Emulator configurations and the connection is working, however, there is a challenge I am facing to remap the enter key to be the CTRL key. I can see in preferences Remote Connection Emulator is mentioned but the k...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Configuration of DBB in IDz similar to ‘zapp.yaml’ in VSCode.

We would like to use a defined ‘zapp.yaml’ in IDz as it is configured in VSCode. So it would be much easier for the user to use the build. It is quite complicated to setup the user build for a normal host user. And it would be perfect to let the d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Threshold changes should be possible to dynamically revert back

Our team uses SA 4.1 and NetView 6.2.1 for mange applications. Panel AOFKAASR allows to dynamically add, change threshold but it doesn't allow to revert changes back to previous state. This function should be added to avoid recycle NetView, ACF CO...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

MQ Trigger support

An important customer in Italy is showing interest in our end-to-end Instana solution (z + dist.). They use IMS as a transaction monitor and applications arrive on the z platform via WASz or via MQ. zAPM Connect currently support only MQ Bridge fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Add support for HWIREST to JZOS

BCPii is an important z/OS specific API that currently supports several languages but NOT Java. Having this support within JZOS would make java applications relying on HWI communications (such as monitoring applications or system automation tasks)...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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