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EQQADMIN needs to be modifiable without RACF command

Currently EQQADMIN can only be put into effect via issuing of RACF commands such as RDEFINE EQQADMIN AUTOMAPPING APPLDATA(‘NO’/'YES')or RDEFINE EQQADMIN DWC_userID@Hostname APPLDATA(‘RACF_userID’). If the RACF class EQQADMIN is defined and enabled...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Optional Source IP Address for TESTPORT

Customers like Lockheed Martin/CMS use TESTPORT and like it but need to specify an optional sourve VIPA or source IP address in order for TESTPORT to reach the target socket/port. Right now TESTPORT takes the main IP address of the associated stac...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Support 66 levels in zUnit

66 levels are valid COBOL definitions for working storage and linkage areas, and prevents zUnit from generating test cases for programs containing these.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

JZOS file/stream classes should implement Closeable for try with resources

JZOS file and stream classes, such as ZFile should implement Closeable to support try with resources.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Change FM option modules to be standard PARMLIB "styled" members.

Convert FMN0POPT, FMN1POPT, FMN2POPT, and FMN3POPT to a PARMLIB that re read during product startup. This really has slowed down the install process because we need to apply usermods to our maintenance volumes and migrate to each system. When you ...
almost 13 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add customization/rules for 'Code Coverage'

This is request to add 'customization/rules' to 'Code Coverage'. One example, is 'ELSE' statements for each DB2 SQL statement. All 'ELSE' statements are marked as 'not covered' and report statistics do not provide accurate picture. Number may be c...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

require system specific connections for Monitor or IPL Completion

The SA dialogues allow you to specify Monitor for IPL Complete. This is an all or nothing setting for wherever the resource is connected to. Looking for a mechanism to either specify which system this monitoring is for or an documented externalize...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

VMRELOCATE off from GDPS menu

We would like to be able to set vmrelocate off for guests running under z/VM from GDPS menu
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

JVMServer (OSGI) log file rotation policy for zFs output files

As our production Cics regions are restarted once a week, the JVMServer zFs output log files grow very large in size (upto 1 GB). It is quite a challenge to load such large files in editor/viewer and analyze or search for valid information. Logfil...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration