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Enhance File compare results

Have a look at PMR TS003751098 for reference. In cases of changes in some lines the compare utility sometimes show inserts and deletes instead of a change. This is often much more difficult to understand. Most other compare tools do much better, j...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Not under consideration

Filenet F8 / ICC / CSS / ICN - to be made RMS-aware

FileNet suite of products (CPE, ICC, ICN, and CSS) needs to be Azure RMS-aware. The company is moving to content encrypt all data within the company. Therefore, the FileNet suite of products needs to be able to be RMS-aware to handle this encrypti...
over 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Endevor Eclipse Functionality within RDz

Work with CA to enhance the endevor plug-in within RDz to absorb the CARMA functionality. Ability to eliminate the need for a developer to choose which interface to use for Endevor within RDz. Provide 1 access method.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

GEO-494 (RABO Bank) GDPS should suspend mirroring after failing Hyperswap Resync

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Angela LabateSubmitters Company: Other Customer PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-494 (RABO Bank) GDPS should suspend mirroring after failing Hyperswap ResyncHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: GDPS/PPRC...
about 9 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

A lot of SMF80 records are wrriten when IMS CHNG call by not-signed-on users.

A similar option to AUTHLOG parameter is required for the customers of the CHNG call by not-signed-on users. In our customer's case, almost a million of SMF80 records were written a day, when LTERMs or TRANSACTIONs are not defined to RACF. Since t...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Not under consideration

z/TPF support for Link Time Optimization

GCC compiler support for Link Time Optimization was announced in October 2014. We would like to utilize that support to improve run-time performance of TPF applications writen in C/C++.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

CA7 - AD to support the CA7 ARF facility (conditional triggers using scripts)

AD currently does not support the CA7 ARF Facility in it's batch flow analysis. (conditional triggers using scripts)The team has been discussing / reviewing this ask with IBM partners - Luci P, Gord P, Rami Katan. 'Apr 16 - had meeting with IBM de...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI - Support CA7 Event based triggering

AD currently does not recognize CA7 Event Job Scheduling in it's batch flow analysis. The team has been discussing / reviewing this ask with IBM partners - Luci P, Gord P, Rami Katan; 'Apr 16 - had meeting with IBM dev team, Further discussions ha...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow HourGlass to accept a Date a number of days ahead or back

Hourglass allows you to specify a date plus or minus a number of years from the current date.I need to have this ability to specify a date plus (or minus) a number of days, this number should be 3 digits to allow for upto a year (although 999 woul...
about 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add new WTOPC User Exit to allow special WTOPC SVC monitoring

Require a WTOPC CP cedi.cpy User Exit to monitor WTOPC's issued at high rates. User exit must be called with the WTOPC Reconstructed Plist area completed.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration