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Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Dynamically Restart Job Occurence

We would like the ability for the controller to be able to dynamically restart a job in the plan, similar to WAPL started task.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Install requires additional function

When installing BAS definitions using CICS Explorer, the user can select which CICS regions to perform the install on but has no ability to specify additional options. (See attachment "Explorer Install"). However on the WUI several additional opti...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

CICS record based channel containers/queues

CICS should support an alternative or enhancement to channel containers that is record based rather than byte based. These would be similar to temporary storage queues, except they would have the same visibility and lifetime rules as any other cha...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

delete-trailing-blanks-in-data-receiver-csv-fields

Hi, The data receiver component is supposed to be optimal for sending data to splunk, yet it sends lots of csv fields to splunk with trailing blanks. Customer would like the tool to optionally delete trailing blanks from csv fields and hence prope...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Future consideration

Solution in IZPCA to provide information based on SMF_121

Hello, Currently I don't see any solution in IZPCA providing information based on SMF_121.Could you please confirm if you have been working in some solution to provide information using SMF_121 or planning something on that? Thank you!
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration