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Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

support COBOL/Java interoperability

With Cobol 6.4 COBOL/Java interoperability was improved but we can not build such a Programm using DBB out of the box. We need the following. 1) Dependency Scanner should detect the following JAVA-CALLABLE directive JAVA-SHAREABLE directive Enhanc...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Need HACP EE to allow for the customization of its navigation bar just as Host On-Demand does

Currently, HACP EE V 4.2 offers a very limited option for the user to customize the navigation bar. We need user to be able to customize their HACP EE navigation bar just as if not better than what Host On-Demand currently offers.
3 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Under review

GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Extend ABO 2.2 support to z13

Our customer who use z13 wants to use ABO. Since ABO V2.2 supports only z14 or higher, they can't use. ABO V2.1 supports z13, however, ABO V2.1 was already EOMed.
about 2 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Planned for future release

Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

cdp needs to support xcom smf record (SMF 192)

Customer has competitiive product that supports XCOM SMF 192 record and would like to move to CDP. They need this support to be able to stop using the competitor.
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Not under consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

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