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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dynamicaly request the usage value of Network OCC IDs

We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and this is not a seldom event in our environment. So we want to monitor the usage of the NWK OCC IDs value.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

The max value (65535) of Network OCC IDs is too small in huge environments

We run into dataloss situations when the usage of NetWork OCC IDs is 100%. We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and we got this event very often at night before we schedule a daily planning job (e.g. CP Replan). In a situation when we have to av...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Provide Detailed Instructions on Cloning an SMU Server from a Container to a new Container/Server for High Availability

IBM currently provides an option to install/manage/run SMU using a Red Hat (Podman)/Linux (Docker) container. It would be very useful for clients to have detailed instructions on how to make a copy of an existing SMU container to create a high ava...
about 2 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Cobol Editor BIDI support

Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Enhance Version Output for Python to Include APAR/PTF Level

To assist in bridging the gap between non-z/OS maintenance methods and traditionally understood z/OS maintenance methods, having the PTF level of the build would be helpful in the `python3 -VV` output. As it stands, IBM's communication is strictly...
about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Future consideration

Add which port to the product

Please consider adding the which port available from the zopen community to be one of the tools provided via the product.
26 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Cross debugging

There are some scenarios where the user who is intended to debug some program isn't the one who submits the JCL. Among other situations, this happens when the job is launched from ControlM. In this case, the principal is a service user instead of ...
6 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
3 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Future consideration

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