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Allow different zAPM Distributed Gateways to communicate

Where there are multiple DGs that may be globally dispersed, CICS (SYSPLEX1) connected to DG1 => MQ => CICS (SYSPLEX2) connected to DG2 may result in events being sent to different DGs for a single end to end message flow. Even though the DG...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Expand delimited length from 255 to 1024

This would help eliminate "DWO378E DELIMITED STRING IS TOO LONG, GREATER THAN 255 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH" when working with PIPEs, and perhaps other areas as well.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Expand to support the Enterprise

I would love to see ADDI expanded to support the Enterprise. This would require 2 new / expanded products. 1. ADDI for Non-Mainframe Applications - This would use WAZI Analyze to support Java, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, etc. 2. Enterprise Analysi...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 0 Future consideration

ICDSN , here not possible code an TEXT with blanks. An example. If i want thee text: UIC FOR DB i must code UICFORDB.. Thats an rubbish entrie in RECON.

clarity
5 months ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / IMS Image Copy 4 Future consideration

SMF123 enhancement - error from server or HTTP response code mapping

Problem statement : Despite 'polite' requests to the contrary we have a few internal customers who employ HTTP status code's 500 in their HTTP status code mapping. In the event of transient issues in Open LIberty, it is not possible to establish w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add support for SMF 103 subtypes 13 and 14

We have IBM HTTP servers based on Apache software. They create SMF type 103 subtypes 13 and 14 records, but IZPCA does not support these record types.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Backup for IMS Directories and BSDS - have flexibility to utilize GDGs and set the BACKUP HLQ (with IMSID being added).

We currently backup our IMS Catalog using the following naming standard and GDG's. IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A <where * is the IMS environment suffix>IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A.GxxxV00 Our intent is to backup the IMS Catalog, Directories ...
5 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Installation - Customization 1 Future consideration

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Changes in the property files (application-conf) should be picked automatically

If there any changes in any .properties file in application-conf folder, should be picked automatically by DBB user build like CPY/COBOL the dependency files
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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