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BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Long Duration Alert Message Information for Usability

The Long Duration alert message should be enhanced to provide additional information that will assist in quicker assessment and analysis. Additional information requested to add to the message:* Run Cycle * Job start time* Jobs estimated duration*...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Automatable IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5)

The IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5) are issued with DescCode 13 set, which means they cannot be trapped in the automation table. We therefore cannot alert them to our operators without defining additional rules - use MRT to remove DescCode 13.I...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

improve UX of credential dialogs for linux/zos they are very similar

Make more visible / aparant to the user which credentials are you asking for, for example: replace the gray hint of User ID field from "Enter user ID" to "root" or "ibmuser" based on the type of credentials. Because there are two types of credenti...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Not under consideration

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

add new field to AUDITLOG with CPU Usage

It would be interesting if on zWS/TWS/IZWS/IWS auditlog could have the batch job cpu usage added to it. Having CPU usage of the batch completed/failed/etc on it would open possibility for new reports on the tool and also not to have have to create...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration