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Debug: ignore an instruction permanently without stopping

This is a reopen on RFE 150425 as it was misunderstood and closed as "delivered". Please add a way to permanently ignore an instruction during a Debug session. The command JUMPTO doesn't help as it stops the debugger and needs to be entered each t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Please add Jobname to message EQQ8006I

Hi Development team. Please can you include the Jobname in the message EQQ8006I for the CDP Integration. When people look at alerts they reconcilethe Jobname, and not application id and operation number. Only TWS requires this for it's key.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

More granular message is password/passphrase change fails

Supersession is not able to deliver qualified error message, if a user is requested to change his password / his passphrase. a) new Password/passphrase is ok - everything is ok b) new Password/passphrase is not ok - Supersession delivers only a me...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Modify Status Command gives no response to the Requester

Via our System-Automation we monitor the TWS-Trackers and the TWS-Controller. Every hour the status of the systems is retrieved via the modify status command. The output of the command is only written to the syslog. The requester gets no response....
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Change KCIPARSE to use the Configuration Manager RTEDEF defined variables

When using RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y , variables can be defined as System variable, or they may be defined in the RTEDEF(VAR$GLOB) and/or RTEDEF(VAR$lpar) members. When running the Configuration Manager (CM) GENERATE action, variables defined by the ...
6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

GDPS Reconfiguration Wizard : introduce ability to pause and restart the initial Global Copy

When using the proposed GDPS Reconfiguration Wizard to migrate to a new DS8000, once the new device is defined and we enter the "New DSS Configuration & Mirroring" process, a Global Copy is initiated between the current production box and the ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

IDz DBB user build discovers dependencies only for COBOL and PLI

IDz tool will not auto select the Maclib (copybook library) for ALC modules when trying to run the DBB user build wizard setup. We have to manually select it each time to start the DBB configuration. (Works for cobol but no for ALC)
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Change to generated JCL out of PGM=HSICCSI

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: Currently the CSI report generates IQ-JCL which is pretty much hard coded and therefore not so useful for us. Instead provide t...
6 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration