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System Automation - Handling Long-Running Enqueues improvement

As IBM recommended, the IBM System Automation's Handling Long-Running Enqueues (ENQs) function was enable in order to determnine a contention problem on RACF Databases getting a dump of the holder of the resource. The objective of the RFE 87447 is...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Parenthesis are not highlighted in IDz COBOL editor (compared to TSO)

In TSO (ISPF editor), when parenthesis number is not rational (insufficient or in excess), the problematic parenthesis is highlighted in pink. In IDz (COBOL editor), there is no highlighted for this exact same problem. We wish we can have a clear ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

Allow setting USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) in IPCONN without SSL

We have some SYSPLEX in our Company and we would like to connect CICS regions belonging to different SYSPLEX via IPIC not using SSL, but with the USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) option in order to know the RACF userid that originates the transaction.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Modify Status Command gives no response to the Requester

Via our System-Automation we monitor the TWS-Trackers and the TWS-Controller. Every hour the status of the systems is retrieved via the modify status command. The output of the command is only written to the syslog. The requester gets no response....
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer - Test case - Passticket support

As moving to more secured enironment we need Passticket/one-time-password support when running a testcase in IMS explorer.
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

MFA Support to transfer and receive files thru FTP and z/OS connections

Hi, We have a problem in transferring and receiving files thru FTP and z/OS connections in IMS Explorer when our mainframe systems are enabled with MFA. No support at all for FTP, but we can connect and transfer files using z/OS remote connection ...
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

Today IMS can startup its CSL Stasks of SCI,OM,RM; extend to startup CQS(for RM) and ODBM

Today IMS via its DFSDFxxx member allows its CSL address spaces (SCI/OM/RM) to be started by the IMS Control region using: SCIPROC=,OMPROC=,RMPROC=. However, our CSL setup for RM requires a 'non-shared Queues' CQS to be started, if the CQS is not...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

CEDA ADD GROUP( ) LIST( ) FIRST or LAST Attribute

We only have 2 options when we ADD group to List in CSD, i.e BEFORE and AFTER.It if difficult wjen you working on huge projects like 200 existing lists, which already contains groups.Ex: If we want to add DB2CONN group in list, it should be added ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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