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User fields at occurrence level

Currently we have a PIF interface to add occurrences to the current plan. We need to pass variables to a job/operation that are up to 500 bytes long (for non-zos environment). The variables have to be available to all operations in the occurrence....
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improvement for the zos_copy / ibm_zos_core collections module (based on ZOAU’s dcp utility)

For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 22 Future consideration

Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of available Application Symbols (SUBSSYMBOLn/SUBPSYMBOLn), similar to System Automation Symbols (AOCCLONEx)

Both simple and complex environments can be managed more easily through symbol substitution. With additional Application Symbols, a more tailored approach to automation management can be achieved, reducing administration efforts through reusable d...
8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CUZCLOUD active task queue persistence across restart.

In case of a restart of the CUZCLOUD STC the active task queue is cleared. This doesn't permit to close safely the STC in case of planned outage of one of its components (z/OS, network, storage, HW) or unplanned events. At the restart of the STC w...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Future consideration