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Remove the requirement of Db2 SYSADM authority to access the IZPCA panels to perform specific functions.

DB2 SYSADM is the highest level of administrative authority at a DB2 subsystem level. Users with SYSADM authority can run some utilities and issue some database and database manager commands within the instance. A user with SYSADM authority can gr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

JOB LOG MONITORING SUPPORT FOR USING WILCARD (*) IN ANY MESSAGE STRING

Job log monitoring code supports the use of a wildcard (*) as part of the filter criteria. Job log monitoring however only allows this to be used as the beginning of a search string. Example of supported definition: DUMMY :JLM_OFFSET=0JLM_DDNAME=S...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Improved ability to invoke trigger keys

We are in the process of migrating a customer from CA-TPX to Supersession.The customer is used to switching between sessions using command keys in CA-TPX in various different situations. Users switch sessions from input fields, which can contain d...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update PIPE in ACFREP (aka AOFRSRPY) to expose messages IEE600I in order to allow further AT processes to trap IEE600I

We would like to suggest an enhancement for the way ACFREP (AOFRSRPY) replies to WTORs. Currently, the PIPE named ISSUECMD executes the reply command via CORRCMD and then locates the message IEE600I and save to a stem named resp. This works gracef...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Add retry logic for connection failures

I miss connection retry when the network is flaky.1) when entering credentials for VM or zOS you validate credentials by connecting host. In case you get connection errors could you retry eg 3 times with 1sec delay before you raise an error. (in c...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

EQQJOBS support for the "million jobs" SPE (SPE9308) is missing in 9.5 releaseOPo

There is no EQQJOBS selection for the use of the "million jobs" function (parameters MCPDATASPACE and CPDATASPACE) even though there are quite a bit of things that need to be customized - file definitions (EQQPCS01 job),the parameters for BATCH jo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

new option TERMBLOK for LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx

Today LOCKTIME only has 2 options ABEND or STATUS. We have the need for a new option TERMBLOK that results ina) terminating the top blocker when timeout threshold is exceeded, i.e. DFSLLKX0 is called b) message DFS2291I being issued to syslogc) th...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Endpoint Descriptor - New Connection Error Threshold Element

Allow customer-specific settings to define at what point (counter) errors experienced during the endpoint descriptor processing will force an automated system undeploy of the failing endpoint descriptor.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Compare the test cases/entries in zUnit test case editor

Compares the test contents of two or more test cases defined in zUnit.For example, we would like to compare the test cases with the test cases that we want to implement based on a single test case, such as a last successful test case.Users can cho...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

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