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IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

EXCI Policy Limiting Batch EXCI Pipes for same job

EXCI Policy, or other means, to Limit excessive Batch EXCI Pipes for same job. A single batch job could loop taking all the EXCI Pipes; would want a way to block one job, to prevent others from opening an EXCI Pipe. Limit would be configurable.
15 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Allow further defining of PROGRAMNAME in the Application/Business Group criteria specification.

Change the application/business group specification of PROGRAMNAME to be CICSPROGRAMNAME, DB2PROGRAMNAME, and ADDSPACEPROGRAMNAME
15 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add the Address Space "Work Type Indicator" as a classification rule for Application/Business Groupings

This would be useful, because it would give the user the ability to differentiate between batch jobs, started tasks, OMVS, and TSO address spaces.
15 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Add possibility to specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS on a dd_input (zos_mvs_raw)

In a JCL job I can work with system symblols in in-stream datasets if I specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS. I could not find a solution to do so with zos_mvs_raw. JCL Example with &YYMMDD-Symbol (current date): //COPYDS1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=64M //**...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

Enhancing z/OS Connect for Dynamic API Integration with JSON Response Handling

Abstract This document proposes an enhancement to IBM z/OS Connect to support flexible consumption of API responses in JSON format without mandating COBOL copybook regeneration for every API update. This capability aims to streamline integration e...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

source control enablement

Enable source control integration for applinx applications and/or repository. The ability to only export and import the entire repository and the lack of exporting only differences without manually exporting (specific entities) from the Designer l...
17 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
11 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration