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Disk sharing between two TARGET ZDT.

The goal is to share, outside the sysplex mechanism, disks between two targets.The goal is to make available files on a TARGET for other TARGET.A TARGET is in update and the others are in reading.File sharing between host linux is done through NFS.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Cleanup of Disconnected OTMA Clients.

OTMA can have a maximum number of 255 clients after which new connections are rejected. The count includes also NOT DEFINED DISCONNECTED clients. Based on the actual design an IMS COLD start is needed to clean up those clients.This allows clients ...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Delivered

Add the WebSphere MQSeries GET number in the policy specification

We would like to define a policy related to the WMQ messages rate (i.e. temporary start a new CICS region or MQ listener in an existing region from an event message).WMQ queue processing may imply side effects such as high number of messages comin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

zUnit: Option to view Test cases in browse mode only

Our team needs the ability to review test cases and have the it protected against changes
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

PCOMM v13.0.1.0

The problem is that the first time that a .srl file is to be saved to disk it initially opens in C:\users\<user_id>\appdata\roaming\IBM\Personnal Communications directory. We would like this to initially open at H:\ eliminating the chance of...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered

Explicit IMS-Connect-PING by IMS TM RA API

We recommend to expand the API of IMS TM RA for an explizit IMS-Connect-PING.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 4 Delivered

zconbt support for string format 'date' in swagger

Need support for string format 'date' in zconbt API Requester generation. We would like the Cobol generation in the same fashion as format 'date-time'.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add new [NO]LAXOPTIONAL(ALL | SOURCE) suboption to RULES option

We would like to get a new RULES suboption such as [NO]LAXOPTIONAL(ALL | SOURCE)- LAXOPTIONAL will be the default- ALL will be the default for NOLAXOPTIONAL Under NOLAXOPTIONAL the usage of PRESENT and OMITTED for non-optional fields will be flagged.
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Debug Manager timeout value

right now the debug manager time out value is hard coded to 10 min . Please make this value configurable.
almost 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enable direct to cloud capability in CTC

Current CTC must either clone an existing disk or tape activity, post process prior disk or tape activity or emulate tape and subsequently read the "tape" dataset from disk in order to send to the cloud. CTC should enable the capability to directl...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Delivered

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