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Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add PDFSPOTR to OGL/370

PDFSPO was added with PQ43723. That APAR was closed in 2000-12-11. I suggest adding PDFSPOTR to OGL/370 (similar to AFPRSC)
9 months ago in Printsw / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add instream support for procedures called from JCL, and STEPLIB support

Competitor's testing products utilize process to make changes to execution JCL that include making the impacted PROC instream. This allows for PGM= substitution to their monitoring program, modifying PARM statement if required, modifying existing ...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

MOVE command in Remote Debug Console

Hello IBM, we need the functionality of the MOVE and SET commands for the Remote Debugger's Debug Console. The command is currently supported only in the 3270 Debugger.
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Dynamically Restart Job Occurence

We would like the ability for the controller to be able to dynamically restart a job in the plan, similar to WAPL started task.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Web requester AT-TLS aware

Outbound web requester (SOAP) EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE will use CICS SSL support if HTTPS is the protocol scheme in the URI. Shop standard is to have AT-TLS policy look for outbound HTTP requests to servers and create SSL session to server. In ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Implement a delay before querying a zCentric agent after the workstation became active

When a zCentric workstation goes from Offline to Active status, the controller immediately queries the agent to retrieve the status of the jobs. If the agent does not know the jobs requested by the controller, the latter sets them in UNKN error. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

OPCOPTS - Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES should be set default as YES since it always caused OPC Fetch Directive error if not set to YES

As this Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES current default set to NO is an very old design, when we use OPC Fetch Directive, the JCL will always throw error anyway. This mean REMJCLDIRECTIVES(YES) will be mandatory. However, this should also take in cons...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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