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cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

GDPS RACF SAMPLE FILE

SA provides SAF configuration support, which provides a sample file for configuring RACF groups and NETCMDS profiles configuration for SA. GDPS could provide similar sample file for RACF to externalize the security of IBM SA and GDPS configuration...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

Override ConnectionRef in .ara file to address multiple RESTFul endpoints

API Requester scenario. 2 different environments , SVIL1 and SVIL2, sharing the same ZCNEE instance. There are 2 RESTful endpoints, one for SVIL1 and one for SVIL2 (they can also be API managers, like APIConnect) The same CICS program is deployed ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

IWS CPU usage improvement for ETT data set CLOSE events

Each IWS tracker subsystem on z/OS gets control during data set CLOSE processing in order to check, if this event is related to an ETT-defined data set (ETT = Event Triggered Tracking) in the EQQDSLST-file.If EQQDSLST contains many entries (severa...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Enable Application Performance Analyzer in VS Code

Provide VS Code extension for Application Performance Analyzer
2 months ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Copy services issues are reported under a generic problem code

In the support case, we have an issue with the copy services license key (missing the MGM license) which prevent the START SECONDARY after a planned hyperswap. However, the issue is only reported under a generic problem code which makes it difficu...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T: fields related number of transactions and the response time when HPDBAT is active (OA62758)

Hi all,we work with IZPCA table named KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T to execute analysis on performance at service class level.When HPDBAT is active on DB2 of our systems, fields TRANSACTION and TRAN_ELAPSED_SEC show us misleading informations.On OA61811 (https:...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release