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Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

PCOM FTP client file size limitation

PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Request new SHBODEFS member like HBOUAKZ8, with new fields for newer Z machines like z14, z15 and z16.

IBM cannot change HBOUAKZ8 to add new counters introduced by z14 and later machines. The HBOUAKZ8 job is used to write Db2 UNLOAD file which will be subsequently load to Db2 tables. It has to be consistent with the Db2 schema set in the IZPCA/TDS ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

CICSPlex Global TRANCLASS

We would like to have a the possibility of defining Global Tranclass Resources, and this way to be able to activate them with 'CICS System Group' scope in a CICSPlex.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Future consideration

GDPS/Metro 4.2- No need of any contextual validation? when View command used for a Script

When we select a script with view we clearly indicate that we do not intent to launch the script
over 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

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