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Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 16 Not under consideration

Enable RACF passticket support for users creating API’s in Design Center to make calls to IMS.

Currently we are leveraging RACF Passticket support for many things within zCEE and it would be beneficial to have this capability for users who are creating API's in Design Center to make calls to IMS
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Trackinglist - Call Sequence Report: create a filter to ommit Orphan Transactions groups

-Trackinglist with callseq parameter: The purpose of the call sequence report we seek is to discover the flow of transactions that are being executed in our system. At this time, we would like to see only complete paths/flows in this report and no...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
11 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Since executing a pointer checker on a broken database is highly recommended by IBM IMS, it would be beneficial for IBM IMS to supply a pointer checker utility along with all the other IMS DB utilities already supplied with IBM IMS.

Since IBM IMS chose to make the IMS Catalog a HALDB DB, it would be beneficial - for DB integrity purposes - to have a pointer check utility available for use (@ no additional cost) similar to other IMS DB utilities like the Database Image Copy ut...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report possible active CC session(s) during a planned HyperSwap

A planned HyperSwap is not allowed if there is a DFSMS Concurrent Copy (CC) session present in the GDPS environment. GDPS reports this with "HyperSwap not possible due to CC session(s) in primary or secondary disks." The user has to use the F ANTM...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

IMS Online Reorg to disregard error: Number of online IMS subsystems has changed

We are looking for an option to tell IMS ORF to disregard if the number of online subsystems has changed during job execution time. We are running a 4 way data sharing environment and planning to introduce rolling IPLs in the near future. We also ...
8 months ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 1 Future consideration

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