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Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

General zvdt support for Z/VM layer 3 vswitch

Layer 3 vswitch includes all capabilities of Layer 2 plus routing capabilities. All Z/VM customers running ZVDT would benefit from this
6 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Add support for zVM Layer 3 VSWITCH to ICIC

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center should support both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VSWITCHs that are defined in zVM.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to Customize Columns on CICS Resource View/Package View Panels for display

Adding the functionality to customize searchable columns on the CICS CM Panels will help users expand their search based on additional resource definition fields (Example: Description field). This will save time in filtering of resource definition...
6 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

System Automation - Handling Long-Running Enqueues improvement

As IBM recommended, the IBM System Automation's Handling Long-Running Enqueues (ENQs) function was enable in order to determnine a contention problem on RACF Databases getting a dump of the holder of the resource. The objective of the RFE 87447 is...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Parenthesis are not highlighted in IDz COBOL editor (compared to TSO)

In TSO (ISPF editor), when parenthesis number is not rational (insufficient or in excess), the problematic parenthesis is highlighted in pink. In IDz (COBOL editor), there is no highlighted for this exact same problem. We wish we can have a clear ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

iDz 'Debug Configurations' option does not work on JCL that is based on JCL procedures that has more than one step

We have found out that when using ‘Debug Configurations’ option ‘z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL’ we cannot get it working when JCL itself is based on JCL procedures if there are more steps in the JCL.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration