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improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Support for storage upgrade /storage HA

1) to support Citi’s plan to upgrade storage systems; 2) to support Citi’s plan to implment storage HA solution (which is in discussion)
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

Include 3270port in the devmap file

Since ZVDT allows for multiple instances running on the same Linux on Z LPAR, the default 3270port entry was removed, as multiple instances would be unable to share the same port.However, having the port is critical when debugging IPL related issu...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

GDPS to support multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license

As of today, GDPS only supports one consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license, however it would be nice if customers could create multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices under a single GDPS license, that will allow customer to mana...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Implement support for Deleting / Renaming RCE host sessions

When performing Window->Editor->Clone on a RCE session it will duplicate the current RCE session and you can name the new session what ever you like. This can be done several times to create multiple RCE sessions. The next time a user opens ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Default value type setting in IMS Catalog for Explorer inserts

Modify the IMS Catalog to have default values for field statements, that is: spaces, low values, zeros, zoned, etc. This would then be used by IMS Explorer Suite for inserts when a field value is not specified. For Example on this "Insert into MS3...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Build Selection Batch Command Line

The IBM Application Discovery Build Client allows us to Build a selection of entities.However, we can't do this with a batch command line.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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