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Ing305I should be issued for any invoked shutdown

Currently if there is a GDPS controlled image when a shutdown has been invoked message ING305I is issued. This seems to be in line with the ING313I, Ing314i and Ing315I messages.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Next Word and Prev Word should not stop on dashes in variable names in the COBOL editor

New Word (Ctrl+Right) and Prev Word (Ctrl+Left) should not stop at the dashes in variable names in the COBOL Editor. This behavior cripples the function.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Reuse BAQCSTUB existing connection from DB2 Stored Procedure

We ask to add to BAQCSTUB the capability to re-use the connection to z/OS Connect when called from DB2 stored Procedure.There is no way for the BAQCSTUB to persist its connection between invocations of the stored procedure in the WLM managed Exter...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Stream WebSphere Liberty message.log to Logstash ELK

Recently application team intend to transfer WebSphere Liberty message.log and to display only particular info such as response time in MAGE. So, we config a stream for WebSphere Liberty message.log to be sent to Logstash ELK. From Data Streamer l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

Enable Class Inheritance for the DB2 CONTROL Parm Values

Please enable Class Inheritance for the DB2 Control Parm values. Presently the Class Inheritance for the defined DB2 Control parms are not working as documented. Please refer to IBM's Defining Automation Policy manual starting on page 12 under the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Compiledate and Compiletime of loads

It should be nice to get the list of compile date and compiletime and version of compiler of all csects in a loadmodule. This should be implemented for the languages cobol, PL/1, LE-enabled ASM, C/C++, FORTRAN for online and batch component.- all ...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow Show dependencies without JCL submit

This issue has been discussed on PMR# 08724,379,000. Problem is that if RDz procedure ELAXFCOC is not used for compilation and therefore not configured then Show dependencies will also not work because it needs to submit a Job using ELAXFCOC. It w...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

Support CICS JSON Web Services calls

Customer is converting SOAP web services into Rest JSON web services to call CICS programs, need ZAPM Connect to support this application transformation.
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

IDz - CARMA/Endevor type processor group description

There is usually more than one processor group for each type. In order to know which processor group to choose, the programmer needs to use the description of processor groups. Choosing the wrong processor group can cause production failures. In t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

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