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HBOG054E message to be sent to syslog

Today, HBOG054E is issued only to STDERR, wouil it be possible to have it sent to the SYSLOG, so that we can trap it via System Automation and raise an lert ?
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

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

Handle abend when using JSON GENERATE statement

We are facing an issue when using the JSON GENERATE cobol statement with cobol variables containing incorrect value. For exemple, in the case of a numeric variable containing spaces, the order triggers an ASRA abend and the generated json buffer i...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Enforcing JESSPOOL security rules on JCAN command

When JCAN is used to issue a cancel or purge command, it will issue the operator command $CJ(nnnnnn). This is like what SDSF does, when a line command C/P against the selected job. The significant difference is SDSF can/will perform a check agains...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Running the DWC docker container on Openshift for Z (s390x).

Have the DWC docker container available on Openshift for Z (s390x), with this, I can move my zOS workload console to run on a IFL.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Receiving meta information when listing members

z Open Automation Utilities provide function to check meta information when listing a data set (like created or last changed). It would be really usefull to have this function as well for member listing.
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Support of jakarta package and JDK 17+ for IMS TM RESOURCE ADAPTER

Good morning. We are actually using IMS TM Resource Adapter, but despite the continous evolution of the java standard we are still force to stay on old JAVAEE 8 standard, due to the missing of support from IMS TM Resource Adapter to JAKARTA EE pac...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Planned for future release

TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

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