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Maintain access to SGC recovery at original site after Global Mirror Region Switch

After a Region Switch, it is no longer possible to recover from the Safeguarded Copies at the previous site. This prevents us from being able to go back in time as we could if we remained in a single site and represents a huge gap in SGC functiona...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

Add to SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the region grouplists used at startup

Add to the SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the option to display/query the region grouplists used at startup. Right now if you need to query this you need to review the job output and if you want to query this programmatically you need to chase down the inform...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE.

We are requested to secure the emulation sessions with TLS1.2.In HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE! We saw a decrease in performance (response times) from SSLite to JSSE between two and three times of the response times per displayed ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Java 11 IM packages for z/OS

Enable customers to maintain their Java versions using installation manager in the same way that they manage their Liberty versions. Enable customers to use JDK versions that are different from the system installed Java.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 6 Delivered

Add "Create Result Data Sets" to Compare function in File Manager plug-in

In the File Manager IDZ plug-in, add the "create result data sets" feature to the Compare function, as it exists in the equivalent File Manager ISPF version. This is an extremely useful feature which is used extensively by File Manager users. The ...
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

Preserving service interface customisations in the API Toolkit service projects upon re-import of an updated copybook

z/OS Connect API Toolkit allows COBOL copybook fields to be renamed within the Service Interface definition so that COBOL copybook field names are not exposed in the APIs. For example you may rename a copybook field from CPY-CUST-FR-NAME to custom...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

IMS parameter at MPP region to choose wich userid pass at DB2 signon

Currently IMS pass at DB2 signon the transaction userid. We would like to have a parameter for MPP region (on transaction perhaps),to choose which to indicate to DB2 to use as userid at signon: transaction userid, MPP region userid jcl,...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Delivered

PLT TABLES LOADED DURING THE STARTUP. NOT COMPILED.

Our Macys customer have over 400 regions, each using it's own PLT PI and PLT SD. During an upgrade, we have to compile over 800 PLT tables, which is very time consuming. Plus we have an extra work to document and keep track of all the PLTs to know...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Information % of step CPU limit used in TEPS

We monitor the % of step CPU limit used by a job, configuring PSCU exception. It warns when any address space uses up more than nn% of the CPU time allowed in the current job step (where nn is the threshold for this address space). This helps us ...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

AD Authentication & Authorization

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate to the AD Server and Microcsoft SQL Server. At our site, it is required that there is at least authentication from the clients. If possible, we even would go one step further such that user atuthentec...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

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