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As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

ZOA helper scripts support through NetView when SDSF is unavailable

As a shop not running SDSF we still need the job interaction and MVSOPER utilities of ZOA. This can be achieved by adding logic to the Helper scripts that interact with SDSF for issuing commands and interacting with jobs, and if SDSF is unavailabl...
over 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

Add PDS member functionality to MVS Files filters

Allow the specification of a member name (fully qualified or wild carded) with a PDS name in an MVS Files filter. Include the member name with the dataset name when expanding the MVS Files filter and limit the member list to the member name (fully...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 23 Delivered

Request to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse.

Customer is requesting to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse to enable Co-pilot. Current version doesn't support enabling co-pilot, which is one of the blockers to drive adoption. Co-pilot makes coding easier as it has enhanced IntelliSense fe...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Define a default cipher list used for CICS outbound webservices

Problem: We are running CICS webservices for years. For outbound webservices we haven't defined URIMAPs, so we were using the default cipher list getting from system SSL in the past.Now we have the need to use stronger ciphers. Solving this proble...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Batch Job Wizard support of multi-action job stream

Currently only one function can be generated via the batch wizard. One is unable to generate multiple commands as may be needed.
5 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Increase the granularity of the SAF role-based rules for modification of the LCP Management profile

Current SAF role-based rules allow the locking down of the management profile options. We would like to entirely lock down the ability to change the retention period of a management profile once it's been created. Currently we can't do that withou...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

Support Db2 102 Class 7 Statistics

Db2 class 7 statistics in SMF 102 will help in debugging client connections to Db2. MF 102 Class(7) - IFCID(365) data DSN.V12R1M0.SDSNIVPD(DSNWMSGS) Line 00000003630000 QW00 |_________________________________________________________|0000 QW00 | |0...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered