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monitor the situation before EQQM975E

We got message: EQQM975E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION ADID BECAUSE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES REACHED. . Is it possible to receive a warning message before reaching the threshold set in JTOPTS MAXOCCNUM or at least make a display to monitor the si...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Change IWS Reporting of User Abends as Hex Values to true User Abend Decimal Values

User abends are often bigger than 3 numbers and error codes in IWS are 4 digits. The first digit for a User error is "U" to show it's not a condition code, but now there are only 3 digits for a 4 digit code. So, IWS turns the decimal number to a h...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.

all developers using IDZ in a multiple sysplex / lpar environment.
7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

I want to order single products of a licensed suite

We use the IBM products System Automation and Netview, which we now want to replace with subsequent releases. In our current contract with IBM, however, these products are no longer licensed and can therefore not be ordered using Shopz, even tho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Shopz 1 Not under consideration

Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Enable IMS AIBTDLI INQY ENVIRON call to retrieve IMS Function Level

Please refer to IBM case TS002966101 and also note that if this information is entered into the PMR ID: field of the RFE submission URL, the error message "The PMR ID is not valid. The ID should have the format XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ using numbers for the ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

A right-click on a z/OS Project triggers duplicate calls to the host which slow down the display of the context menu

For example if a z/OS project contains 3 datasets like BUILDER.TEST.LISTING BUILDER.TEST.SRC.COBOL BUILDER.TEST.GENRTED.JCL debug level 2 is enabled on the server side. The user logs in and right-click on the z/OS Project. His rsecomm log shows 2 ...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Is a defect

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