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Improve performance of C++ try/catch when exception is thrown

Our coding best practice guidelines advise developers not to use the try-throw-catch method in C++ code for control of the program flow or transaction validation as the underlying TPF mechanism for identifying the source of the thrower results in ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Increase OMEGAMON/CICS online statistics limitation

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS has limitation on online historical statistics is 4GB is the maximum per CICS region. In the growing of online CICS transactions, this limitation does not allow our OEMGAMON/CICS to have over 1 working day's transaction hi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

AD - Analyze client Legend icon shall appear in the menu bar next to other icons, but not under expandable menu

On AD Analyze client v611 we found that Legend icon is not visible any longer next to other icons (on this small menu bar), but instead it is hidden under pop-up menu. This is not very convenient, as when needed to use this Legend icon feature, de...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow API/SAR Deployment to specified Folder Location

Related to RFE 112082, We envision the Eclipse API toolkit having a pop-up providing an option to specify a location when doing a deploy. It is important that our application developers for each of our lines of business to choose their separate LO...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...
10 months ago in GDPS 2 Future consideration

LCP - Some warning should show up in a script in case you do LCP recover from a Partial Backup

LCP captures/Safe Guarded Copy are immutable copies/backups. So we better make sure that these backups are complete - not missing a volume or more. When you start a IBM z Cybervault sysplex, i call it a recovery sysplex, manually or full automated...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect should provide appropriate HTTP error codes on errors within z/OS Connect or backend systems

Since a short time it is now possible to define HTTP return codes in z/OS Connect depending on codes the application sends back its response message, but in error Scenarios z/OS Connect still doesn't provide an appropriate HTTP error code. Instead...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
6 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

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