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Store Up/Down Message in ASF and show in DISPINFO

The message(s) that triggered ACTIVMSG, resp. TERMMSG, should be stored in the Automation Status File (ASF) along with the already available timestamp.This information should then also be shown by DISPINFO. This requirement has been discussed at E...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Increase the character limt of the JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition.

Right now, the character limit of JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition is limited to 8 Chars. However the character limit allowed for a Unix file in z/OS is 1023 Chars. The 8-character limit on JVM profiles restricts our abil...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Call External Stored Procedures

Hi, Our company uses a lot of external stored procedures (mainly written in Cobol, Java). It would be great if the IDz gets a possibility to call them. After entering the input parameters, the result (e.g. output parameters or result sets) is disp...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

IDz/CARMA - new package status "Execute Failed"

Would like to see a new Package status of "Execute Failed" in CARMA. When I select IN-APPROVAL and APPROVED, I see Endevor packages that are in those statuses but also see packages that are in exec failed status. Please include a Package status of...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Future consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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