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IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

Like DB2 "asynchronous CF duplexing", do you have any plan to implement similar functionality on IMS for IMS locking and VSAM RLS locking. Synchronized duplexing is too expensive in terms of CPU consumption.
7 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ).

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ). Now its showing nothing and developer need to open the .log file need to check and its very time consuming. Since IDZ knows that COPYBOOK is picking from the r...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder.

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder. This will help developers to save their tiem to search the individual artifact.properties.
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

CATTool should Provide Date of Master Key Changes

As part of the Crypto Card or KDS Db2 tables, The CATTool should provide the date that the MKVP value was first stored in the KDS or the date that the MVKP value was changed in the KDS as a result of reencipher. This support was recently provided ...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / Other 0 Under review

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

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