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Enable DISP=MOD usage identification

When DISP=MOD is coded in JCL whether the dataset exists or not determins if DISP=MOD may actual be treated as DISP=NEW. AAM should be able to detect when DISP=MOD is being treated as DISP=NEW and take appropriate action.
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Make z/OS Connect policy support more flexible

z/OS Connect policy support currently is very limited. All rules are based on conditions on HTTP headers. The configuration parameter values which overwrite the original ones in the service archive can only be fix values or values containing the v...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

GDPS - DASD Config to Allow FC Sessions

Hello IBM,In case TS003773513 we were testing the GDPS Metro 4.1 Preserve Mirror Tool and came across a problem which we had never seen with GDPS/PPRC 3.14 and its version of the PMT. The IBM case above stated that with 4.1 the PMT (which is now i...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Editor should have the preference: Host Characters (like LPEX editor)

The Cobol Editor does not display non-displayable characters correctly. The LPEX editor does have the option to replace characters (LPEX Editor -> Appeareance -> Host Characters) . This allows us that for certain non-displayable characters (...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Needs more information

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