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Ensure the REST OLDR functions provide proper audit trail to Prime Cras for any changes to a program loadset's status or composition.

Two critical and standard practices used in zTPF systems are the restriction of certain system alteration entries and functions to a CRAS terminal, and the journaling of the resulting alterations themselves to the Prime CRAS system console. The Pr...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Update SCNMLNK1 member ISTIECCE to tolerate supported versions of NetView

Providing the ability for new versions of NetView to tolerate supported versions of ISTIECCE (and perhaps ISTIETMN?) would allow significantly higher availability for VTAM users. Per Communications Server documentation: "Because VTAMLIB is opened ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

SMF types needed on TDS DB2 Tables

We need this smf types on TDS DB2 Tables. Could you please prepare fixtest ? SMF30PFR (CHANGED SERVICE CLASS of JOBS) Job service class association was modified by a system operator during job execution. SMF30SQT (JOBS WAITING INITIATOR) Time the ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Future consideration

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Proposal for a new C5(MSG) CICS Translator suboption to produce a warning message instead of runtime abend due to excessive COMMAREA length

In new CICS releases the LINK program using a COMMAREA > 32 K produces LENGERR abend. Mitigating the abend to a warning message would facilitate the process to a newer CICS versions (>v5.4).
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

ADDI - Secondary RACF ID

Currently the product does not support DB2 secondary authorization IDs
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
11 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

"Unreachable code" should not be considered as a syntax errors

If Identifity unreachable code is selected as "Warning" in Preferences / COBOL/ Real-time syntax checking, new errors appears in Software Analyzer. Theese errors could not be corrected while code is generated with RPP and it would be useful they d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

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