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Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
10 months ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Tool to expose a large number of CA GEN COBOL programs in zOS Connect

We got hundreds of CICS Cobol programs which were generated from that we expose so far with Cics Transaction Gateway (CTG), and we want to migrate and expose them in zOS Connect. We do that manually, one Cobol by one Cobol, and this process is pre...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Access to z/OS Logstreams

z/OS Logstreams are used by CICS as Journals available to application programs. Currently there is the IXGxxxx assembler programming interface and the LOGR SUBSYS facility to read them as if they were BSAM or QSAM. Could ZOAU support them via the ...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Extend the Application Class concept to other applicable resource types, such as Application Groups and Monitor Resources.

Q. Why is it useful? A. Reduces time and effort fulfilling "customer" (e.g. Support and Operation staff) requests. Q. Who would benefit from it? A. Both automation administrators and their customers: Administrators benefit by quickly inheriting pr...
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Full keyboard mapping in RCE

This idea comes from TS014282019. In the IDz 15.0.3 the host emulator supported the full keyboard mapping. For example, there are two enter keys in full keyboard, our devs would like to map the second enter key to a different function. This functi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Include the Storage allocated by program in the historical painel KCPTASHP

Now with OMEGAMON for CICS V5.6 is possible to see in the interface 3270UI (TOM) which programs were executed by task in the historical view (KCPTASHP) and their elapsed and CPU Time.It is very important to CUSTOMER. Congrats lab! The question is:...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

WAPL | Permit partial values for FILTER segment/record comperators

The segment operators in the FILTER function do not permit the usage of partial values. The usage of partial values with common wildcard charactes like in the List/Select-Statement would be helpful and creats a greate user experience while using W...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration