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Wildcard in ADDTRAN TRANGRP

The ability to ADDTRAN generic TRANID to a CICSPLEX/SM TRANGRP rather than coding more individual TRANID.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

GDPS/PPRC management of an additional PPRC-XD relation off the secondary FC target.

We would like to manage with GDPS a PPRC-XD relation starting from the secondary FC target of the production sysplex to our pre-production sysplex disks.
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

Lock Manager incompatibility between PI and IRLM

We are implementing IMSPLEX configuration for a customer (see diagram attached). Currently we have IMSP instance running on MVS2 LPAR and we are going to add IMSO (IMSP clone) into another new LPAR, using Shared Databases and Shared Queue. See det...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Support 66 levels in zUnit

66 levels are valid COBOL definitions for working storage and linkage areas, and prevents zUnit from generating test cases for programs containing these.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Change FM option modules to be standard PARMLIB "styled" members.

Convert FMN0POPT, FMN1POPT, FMN2POPT, and FMN3POPT to a PARMLIB that re read during product startup. This really has slowed down the install process because we need to apply usermods to our maintenance volumes and migrate to each system. When you ...
almost 13 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add customization/rules for 'Code Coverage'

This is request to add 'customization/rules' to 'Code Coverage'. One example, is 'ELSE' statements for each DB2 SQL statement. All 'ELSE' statements are marked as 'not covered' and report statistics do not provide accurate picture. Number may be c...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

JVMServer (OSGI) log file rotation policy for zFs output files

As our production Cics regions are restarted once a week, the JVMServer zFs output log files grow very large in size (upto 1 GB). It is quite a challenge to load such large files in editor/viewer and analyze or search for valid information. Logfil...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

move GDPS to run under ansible as compare to NetView

Unify automation solution, increase UNIX usage on z/OS and reduce software cost.
12 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

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