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Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
2 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

ZOAU interface with SDSF

Just as with REXX one can use the SDSF REXX API to access any/all information from SDSF so should ZOAU be able to do the same. There is so much information available via SDSF that could be useful to the ZOAU user.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Under review

z/OS Ansible Collection zos_operator: add a wrapper for the opercmd 'console' parameter

The 'console' parameter for the opercmd shell command and python API allow us to specify a suffix for the EMCS console name that is generated. I need this functionality to be exposed in the zos_operator module.
22 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
6 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
about 1 month ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Respect $HOME/.config/go/env

After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
16 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 0 Under review

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a new DISPLAY for CLASS

Currently, one of our customers is using the IMS command /STO CLASS CLASS# to stop the transaction execution in one of the IMSs in the PLEX environment. However, there is only one command to investigate the CLASS situation /DIS STATUS CLASS, and i...
23 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review
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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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