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Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe. Currently we have Set of TWS workstation ID and password saved in PARMFTA userinfo dataset on mainframe to connect to connect to zcentric workstation pn windows This userid and password is...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
12 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

protection of productive systems by performing Hyperswap Unplanned validations with SETIOS HYPERSWAP

When we want to perform Hyperswpa Unplanned simulation tests we use the recommended 'SETIOS HYPERSWAP' command. Hyperswap Unplanned If it finds a system that is not ready for Hyperswap (for whatever reason), it does a SYSTEM RESET to ensure the su...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
9 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
12 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add support for Aqua 3.3.

Currently, users who have migrated to IDz 16.0.3 are missing a critical piece of previously existing productivty tooling - the IMS Explorer integration. It would be beneficial to have the tooling updated to support the latest version before versio...
9 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Planned for future release

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