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z/OS Connect EE summary earliest record attribute

Display date & time of the earliest detail record (API Request) on a Summary row in Enhanced 3270UI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

CPSM cmd to Activate/Quiesce a target Region only in a specific WLMSPEC.

I use following cmd to Activate or Quiesce some target Regions in a specific "wlmspecx" WLMSPEC: EXEC CPSM PERFORM OBJECT("WLMAWAOR") PARM("WORKLOAD(wlmspecx).") CRITERIA("AOR=cicsaorx") ACTION("ACTIVATE/QUIESCE") .....Some of this target Regions ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
7 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

File Manager Compare - display offset

Enhance File Manager compare output to show offset when using record field display. It is possible to have several field in a cobol recordstructure with same name. The compare then shows the name only, but not which one of the fields. This is FMZO...
7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

WorkStation Not Reporting But "submit-NO'

Like a case TS016443942 we need to have a Not Reporting workstation but that possible to put "submit no"For example when the operator must manually stop a plan "halfway"where the plan has a "non-reporting workstation" as the successor of the first...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

CA7 jobs scheduled ID with 000 should be available for ca7 impact analysis in ADDI analyse client.

We have most of the batch jobs defined/scheduled in ca7 with SCHID 000 but in ADDI analyse client SCHID 000 is unavailable for impact analysis. with out that half of the jobs will be unavailable for ca7 in ADDI impact analysis and that will impact...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Desire to propagate zCEE API name through to CICS request

When a CICS API request is made via zCEE, different APIs (and API names) have the potential to utilise the same transaction IDs in CICS, making it impossible to properly understand the workload being driven inside CICS in terms of the various zCEE...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Enable File manager in IDZ to work with MFA enabled

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.
7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

GDPS Global Mirror volume dynamic expansion

Provide capability from GDPS to dynamically expand a volume in a GDPS session and modify all the relationships from a single step.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

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