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zCDP to support CA/BroadCom IDMS SMF record collection

In ASEAN, there is a customer who uses CA/Broadcom IDMS.Customer has some difficulty to produce any IDMS performance related report So.. if zCDP is able to collect IDMS SMF record in near-real time, then forwards it into Analytic Platform (such li...
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Add ability to see PSBs that point to a DBD from DBD Detail panel, and sort better on that column.

On the DBD Detail Panel there is a column 'Pointed by PSB (#)'. It would be nice to have a line command to see that list of PSBs from this panel. Also, each DBD often has multiple lines (ACTIVE/ACT-DIR) with only one line having a 'Pointed by PSB(...
5 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Permit SAF keyrings to be used instead of jks files for host connection.

Currently HATS requires a jks files to be used if the host connection is secure. When the HATS application is deployed on z/OS in WAS the SAF keyrings should be used either as a default or a method to switch when deploying. This is required due to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

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

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
11 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Add DD statement to provide member selection in File Manager Batch.

Currently, the member selection is within the SYSIN DD statement in a File Manager batch. It will be more usable if the member selection can be provided via a DD statement in the JCL. Benefit of this change is when the members list is created dyna...
about 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Improve ctgping to handle SSL URLs

ctgping currently only works with tcp URLs as there is no way to supply the keyring/certificate. Can it be enhanced to use ssl URLs? This would give us a simple way to test/prove end-to-end connectivity which mimics our production services and is ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

(TPFUG) Create new DFDL function to release memory when building or parsing while using DFDL APIs

Create function(s) to release memory following the invocation of DFDL APIs. This would alleviate memory leaks when calling the APIs multiple times.
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release