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Support IAM option to either the DSORG or DSNAME_TYPE keywords

AAM supports certain functions of IAM datasets. It would be beneficial if selection criteria could be used to control intervention based on whether a dataset is of type IAM or not.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Support NONVPNAME option on ZDECB

PJ46160 provided support on ZDECB to display ECBs with a given NVPNAME. Request ZDECB support for NONVPNAME which would display ECBs which do not have the given NVPNAME setup.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Addition details in message ID: EYUXL0033I

When CPSM is going to purge a task at shutdown, it should issue an EXEC CICS INQ TASK(12345) to see if the task has a Principal Facility. And if it does, it should then query that facility with an EXEC CICS INQ TERM(XXXX) in order to get the CONNe...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Introduce FIRST volume selection option to primary space allocation

TAAM goes on evaluating volumes one by one to find out the best volume to allocate primary space for submitted Job .If a large number of volumes were needed to evaluate by TAAM, it took quite a long time . In some batch job cases took 10 to 20 min...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Suppress SNAPC console messages

Create new ZASER and ZIDOT options to suppress SNAPC console messages.1) ZASER SNAP CONSDMP to suppress nodump msgs2) ZIDOT SNAP NOMSG prefix.error to suppress sending console messages of a particular SNAPC dump.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information.

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information . Customer is asking for an enhancement request to ZDDSI to include the PCHID information that is associate with the CHIPID for the associated device. This information would be very useful in ...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

Full IPIC implementation

Support DPL, function shipping, and transaction routing over TCP/IP between mainframe CICS and midrange TXSeries CICS.
about 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CICS product 64-bit exploitation

Provide full 64bit support for TXSeries on all platforms.
about 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IP address in HTTP POST

It is common to bind a web service to the hostname and not to the IP address.But INGOMX resolves the defined host name and uses the ip address in the HTTP POST request.This results in HTTP404 - not found. To prevent this, the INGOMX directive <...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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