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Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Provide an LCP volume validation health check to ensure all required volumes are replicated to the vault

In, for example an MM2 site with LCP configuration, it is entirely possible that when new disks are cut, they are added to the MM config and GDPS but may be missed from the LCP configuration side meaning that they are never captured in the vault. ...
15 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

CPU and zIIP consumption by call passed by CTG

It's exist 2 SMF record to give us information about the consumption : 77 for the adress space level 111 for statistics It would be great to have a record witch will give us the consumption by call. For example if we activate the JWT authenticatio...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0 Under review

Additional functionality to saveOutput methods in JobExec class in DBB Toolkit API to ignore DD-name/header

Hello, Currently in the different saveOutput methods in the JobExec class that uses the ddName parameter to save the output of a specific DD in an executed job the DD-name/header is included in the file that is saved as the initial line. This unfo...
2 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
11 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
10 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Bulk/batch operations from the user interface

I wih that the UKO user interface had some way to import a set of keys, instead the key by key option that is possible at the moment
about 2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox.

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox and would liek have a fix ASAP in next 17.x version. This is really leading to some confusion during ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Is a defect

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration