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SQL Language Support for Internal RDS Tables

Enhance Systems Automation(SAzOS) to allow Sequential Query Language(SQL) against internal table data. Enabling the use of the powerful SQL language would provide at least these benefits:• A universally recognized language to access table data.• S...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

Most of our databases are zTPFDF. Our database growth is primarily FARF6. Our pools control records are FARF5. With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhaustin...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Ability for zcentric agents to flow through a gateway to the Z Controller

This will allow client connections to the zController with zcentric to directly connect through a NAT IP (gateway) and not via a DDM. This will simplify set up and connections with the zcentric agent.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Need HW crypto card encryption support from node.js

While working with State Farm, their z15 systems are all come with HW crypto card enabled. They require the encryption to go through and use HW crypto card when deploying to production system. Our product WMLz (Watson Machine Learning for z/OS) is...
about 4 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Future consideration

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change default for KLSSDCF1-Delete Confirmation panel from delete to cancel.

People put a D by a session in the menu and if they just hit enter on the delete confirmation screen it deletes the session and marks it blocked. It would be nice if the default is changed to cancel then people have to make the choice to delete th...
about 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Improve SUBMIT trace and allow a tracker to have multiple submittors (instead of deploying multiple submit-only trackers

In this case through a combination of JCL DEBUG and SUBMIT traces it was seen that a tracker was overloaded (needed to submit over 7000 jobs in a 10-minute period and was only able to submit around 6300 jobs. It would have been easier to see if a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

RTMC - Roll up Name Value Pair data into summary groups

This is a request for logical summary groups to be created for RTMC name value pair data. When there are hundreds of values for a name value pair (e.g MsgType) the default dashboards can be overwhelming with too much granular data. We need a highe...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SA generated MRT needs to be consistent with auto-generated trap behaviour

Under OTHERMSG SA should use the EXIT statement by default so trap behaviour is the same as a default UPON MSGID(...). Example of an UPON MSGID...UPON( MSGID = 'IEFC166D' ) REVISE('Y' AUTOMATE)When there is a hit on this message, there is no addit...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Global Tranclass

Control the number of simultaneous executions of the same transaction, where the maximum allowed amount is defined, regardless of the number of CICS regions that execute this transaction.Such control aims to avoid resource contention due to the hi...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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