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Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Allow DFHJVM* logs to roll based on file size

We recently upgraded to CICS 6.1 and encountered an unexpected log message from a Liberty JVM. It wasn't frequent enough to trigger alarms in test, but did once it went to production, filling our logging partition. We attempted to delete the massi...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Set a default value to a given service field exposed as Boolean for a service.

To expose a given service field as Boolean, select we select the Boolean option in the Override data type property of the Edit Field wizard. But we cannot find any possibility to set a default value.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Not under consideration

Generate Galasa Code from HATS Macros

In addition to generating web services from HATS macros, we'd like the option to generate Galasa code. Both are Java-based, and since very few companies are currently using the option to generate restful service files and Galasa seems to be attrac...
11 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

SE workload migration

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11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

RHEL9 support: compute node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node<202406> transfer into compute node support which is in v123 plan, added a new one for mgmt node.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1

Export/import  across clusters (KVM)

Export/import across clusters (KVM)
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration