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izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
12 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 pureXML Parser

DSN_XMLVALIDATE failed because of this pattern in the XML schema: <xs:pattern value="[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+](|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+]|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+ ]{1,2}[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+])"/>
about 4 years ago in XML for z/OS 5 Future consideration

LCP (screen VPCPLCS3) : provide a script to export backup details and allow them to be written to a GDG.

When managing the safeguarded capacity multipliers for volumes in LCP, it would be very helpful to be able to see how exceptional volumes have behaved over the last week or so. Currently the 'EXPORT' command in panel VPCPLCS3, " Logical Corruption...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Enhance the setting UI of Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

Now there are 2 place that can configure the connection parameters (host / port, etc) in the RCE - the "Host properties" tab at the bottom - the "Session properties" button on the upper right corner Users are always getting confused for how / wher...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

enable wildcards in policy condition values

We would like the ability to use wildcard characters within a policy condition for example: <conditions> <header name="imstran" value="TRAN%A" /> </conditions> Where % is a single character wild card. This would be beneficial for...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
12 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

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