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GDPS and support for IPL of Recovery LPARs. To be script executed from GDPS Controlling master

Lack of support in GDPS related to handling of Recovery sysplexes/proxies when we use GDPS/LCP functionality.
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

Allow JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL to be set on or off at runtime

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL ON/OFF It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. The WITH DETAIL phrase displays too many messages in job output. Many of the messages are expected conditions for many...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Control asyncRequestTimeout on API or Service level

Currently it is only possible to set the asyncRequestTimeout parameter on a server level within the zosconnect_zosConnectManager element. We keep the value for this default rather low to have some protection against misbehaving programs. For most...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Logging IMS record x'56FA' on SMF

Our customer Unicredit is going to implement IBM IzPCA product that gets in near real time the SMF records created by almost all system software products running on Z. The only important subsystem that cannot be managed in such a way is IMS. We wo...
almost 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Interface for non z/os users to change their TDWC password when TDWC is running on z/OS. Users do not have to use TN3270 session/TSO.

We began implementing DWC to provide the non-z/OS users (users that do not sign onto TSO & TWS panels) a view into TWS, more specifically, their applications. We have implemented in our Test environment, however, these users do have TN3270 ses...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 5 Not under consideration

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
10 months ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 4 Not under consideration

Change EQQACTR1 - Show ZIIP instead of PG

The EXIT EQQACTR1 writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics CPU usage is shown. But there isn't any option to see how much zIIP time the job uses. zIIP time is also a SMF record 30 field. It would be useful to show zIIP usage as well i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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