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Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
9 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Add High Water Mark indicator of a Storage Group or a Volume in ZPCA tables

High Water Mark indicator will be useful for our stockage team to find out if a Storage Group or a Volume is big enough.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.

Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.
13 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Automated Download for Job Log Details of SAP Jobs

Our client has a critical need to integrate Job Log Details of SAP jobs managed by IBM Workload Scheduler into control and audit systems. To fulfill this requirement, it is essential to implement an automated download feature, enabling the logs to...
13 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Need an ability to dynamically modify metadata for conversational search

Currently the metadata for conversational search configuration is done on an assistant level and it is static. We are working on a Client Engineering pilot where there is a requirement to support multiple versions of documentation. For example, DB...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Allow Default 'My Datasets' filter to be customised

In remote systems explorer there is a default MVS Files filter - 'My Data Sets' - that is hardcoded as '<User ID>.*', and this cannot be changed. In our organisation that the standard HLQ for user datasets and so we need the ability to custo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Allow passing a Volume with the Move and Copy utilities to use on uncatalogged datasets

During our DR customization, we load our DASD to a floor system to make changes prior to IPL, for example changing Profile parms for TCPIP so we come up with DR IP addresses, or pointing to a DR DNS (with a TCPDATA move) or IPLing with a different...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

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