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Support of SQL Merge statements in the make / build process

Complex merge statements in the SQL command are not yet supported in the make / build process.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

DWC Display of Script/JCL

But now, our users is pursuing the job log displayed from DWC to include the script/JCL of the job itself as in SCRPTLIB or script.sh in job output folder. Is it possible for you to: 1. Update the code of DWC to include the script.sh to the out.lo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance handling of SDF user data

When a system joins an SAplex and when the RESYNC FP command is used, a user status tree defined with an &SDFCxxx variable should be handled at the focal point in the same manner as the Configuration Refresh Monitoring tree. That is, the entir...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SHUTDOWN needs more selections than just NORM, IMMED and FORCE

Require the ability to have different defined SHUTINIT, SHUTNORM, SHUTIMMED and SHUTFORCE types similar that of STARTUP function. To permit different types of NORMAL shutdown commands.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance JVM Keystore resiliency if bad certificate encountered

Today, a JVM that utilizes SSL will earmark a keystore/keyring as invalid if any certificate within the keystore/keyring is missing a private key, regardless of it other certificates are valid and the problematic certificate is not even used withi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

AAO _WAIT required for AOCQRES and INGDATA commands

Currently the customer has to specify a WAIT=xxx for every occurrence of INGDATA and AOCQRES that they invoke. Other commands like INGEVENT and INGLIST have an AAO called INGLIST_WAIT and INGEVENT_WAIT to set a default value.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

CTG Registered Stakeholder Identifier

We would like to register ASG Technologies for a CTG Stakeholder Identifier for the letter "T". We plan to take advantage of the new CTG 9.3 Selective Tracking Token Data.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

no specification of the extension for includes

With the language-specific program structure usage, the extension can be derived from the context of the action.For the Explore AD project from the selected resource type. In the Include Usage analysis, a corresponding field would have to be inser...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

New NetView service/function to provide WTOR information

* Note: if NetView product is not appropriate for this request, client accepts that it may be considered for SAzOS product instead. NetView (or SAzOS) requires a mechanism to provide a user with WTOR information via API or clist/rexx implementatio...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

The capability to user defined information to INGALERT when called from SA Policy

I need to add user defined information to the INGALERT when it is called from the defined CDE MATCH in SA POLICY definition under MVC - INGALERT.ExampleIf a DB2 abend I need to add the group Id for the group that are responsible for that DB2.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration