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GDPS/LCP panel security

As outlined in our case TS005575235 we think it is a major issue that GDPS does not have panel security for LCP. It appears as though any internal user with GDPS access can go in and adjust the LCP management profile and change the retention perio...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

NOLAXNESTED behavior modification

The NOLAXNESTED compiler option should just prevent code in a proc and nested procs to be intermixed.The rule should be that the code in a proc forms a single 'block'. Case 1 : All nested procs AFTER the code => Acceptable a: proc; dcl (x,y,z) ...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add the monitoring screen for colored status in SMU

Our customer wants to the monitoring screen with SMU so that the status of the resource can be seen in color.But there is no way to display all colored status. Please add the function to identify as the colored fields or character for the all kind...
about 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Increase default MAXREL size for EQQADDS and EQQLTDS

The MAXRECL default for the AD ( EQQADDS) and LT (EQQLTDS) has been 131072 for a long time. Some customers already need to increase the MAXRECL size and if more fields are added to support new functionality, the current MAXRECL sizes may become in...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

enhanced IMS default DFSSPMxx for HIOP

Performance analysis of IMS pool usage by STRG trace and dump of controlregion reveals that requested HIOP buffersizes X'10000' and x'8148' for QCF are larger than largest buffersize in DFSSPMxx default for HIOP: 32768 decimal (see IMS system defi...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

Empty results form DB2 query should show column with no entries like previous data source explorer

If you do a query that returns no results there is no visual notification of that fact.
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Add new PLIPARSE built-in function to parse an input string

Please add a new PLIPARSE built-in function to PL/I V5.3 to split an input string into various fields based on given delimiters: The first argument is the input string to be parsed. The arguments after that input string consist of - an even number...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

RDz - Expanded COBOL source should support COPY ... REPLACING

In a source where no syntax errors are present, the expanded source does show errors. This is due to the fact that the COPY ... REPLACING statement is not fully executed. Only the original copybook is presented in the source, but the replacing act...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

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