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When a /STO SUBSYS and subsequent /STA SUBSYS is issued, IMS has to be restarted in order to make the dep regions pick it up

The customer needs IMS to be able to start subsystems SSM members dinamically when an external subsystem is having issues. Currently, if a sick subsystem is causing problems, issuing a /STO SUBSYS on the sick subsystem and /STA SUBSYS on another S...
almost 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Cannot create a COM folder on Windows

Windows do not create folders named COM1 to COM9: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#invalidfilefoldernames https://answe...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Allow dynamic close/open of MRO connections

If an MRO connection needs to be altered (e.g. change number of sessions) it is not possible to close and re-install the connection without stopping IRC. This is an unacceptable situation in a 24 x 7 production environment. MRO connections must be...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

File Manager for z/OS Option to Generate IDCAMS DEFINE CLUSTER, AIX, PATH for a given VSAM file

A site we support had users that retired and the IDCAMS DEFINE JCL could not be located. The VSAM KSDS had multiple Alternate Indexes too. The new users were not trained in IBM VSAM so they have no knowledge on creating IDCAMS Control Cards. I had...
12 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Move DB2 package fields to the package tables

Please move the following package detail information from the DB2 transaction tables, to the package table where they are more useful: SELECT_ACC INSERT_ACC UPDATE_ACC DELETE_ACC DESCRIBES_ACCPREPARE_ACC OPEN_ACC CLOSE_ACC FETCH_ACC LOCK_ACC CALL_ACC
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

IBM ADDI support on zLinux (RHEL)

we, in ANZ Banking group have purchased ADDI license last year. for various reasons including supportability and infrastructure consolidation, We would like ADDI components to be supported to run on zLinux (RHEL). It would be even better if it can...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
12 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add granularity to coding rules in DFHAPIR

This is to allow better control/restriction on the use of CICS SPI commands by the application programmers.
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

AD Cross Application Service should be enabled for DB2 on z/OS

ADDI has the capability to analyze Cross Applications. Unfortunately this feature is not supported for DB2 on z/OS. We would like to have the feature implemented for DB2 on z/OS as well.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration