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Provide real time indexing for z/OS sequential datasets

I'm not sure which workspace is appropriate - please help find a home for this? We generate terrabytes of log and SMF data every day, but much of it is hard to retrieve because of the amount of data. Could we have a splunk like model of indexing o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include SMF type 42 in LISTSMF when INCLUDE-DSN

When using INCLUDE-DSN=Y for LISTSMF, only SMF record types 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 35, 36, 40, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69 will be checked. I'm missing type 42 in which I can find what actions have been taken within a PDS i.e. ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Planned for future release

COBOL Comparewith does not distinguish case differences in keywords and strings.

It would be advantageous if the COBOL Diff (compare with - each other) would distinguish case differences in places where they don't make a difference vs where they do make a difference.Example: * "MOVE" vs "move" does not make a difference at run...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Extension of NEWC in CICS

We need an extension to CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY. It should be possible that that this command could be restricted to a certain dataset or LIBRARY e.g. CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY DSN('A.B.C') or CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY LIB(ABC).
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

GDPS Consistent FlashCopy should not disable Hyperswap

GDPS Metro is disabling Hyperswap prior to Consistent FlashCopy. As we were told by IBM this is no longer necessary. We would like to get it eliminated to have less Hyperswap disabled moments. There will be the risk, that a HS trigger happens whil...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration