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HOD v14.0.2. FTP client does not support the SECURE SESSION REUSE feature

HOD FTP Client is the most used FTP client in our environment.As we're using FTPS with TLS 1.2 at the moment, we couldn't use SECURE_SESSION_REUSE parameter with REQUIRED value, as HOD does not support this FTP feature.I'm opening this RFE to impl...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Detailed logging for standard action/scripts

This RFE is a follow up to problem record 44584.211.788.Recently we were surprised by the shutdown of one of our systems. We checked the netlog to see what happened and saw that someone brought the system down via GDPS standard action.We tried to ...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

Improve the messaging for LCP Configuration changes in GDPS

LCP is critical to our cyber protection planning. We maintain our SGC captures for 7 days, and for security reasons wish to raise an alert of the retention period is changed. Currently there is no GEOxxxxxW message issued just a vague GEORPT messa...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic SGC volume expansion from GDPS

It would be great if GDPS could initiate and validate the completion of a Dynamic SGC volume expansion instead of client should do it manually from DS8K GUI/CLI.It would give great value if we can do our work from GDPS directly instead of having a...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

A new field for occurences with the original ADID

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avoid this issue some woradounds are needed and already supported by PIF. PIF (e.g. WAPL) can create an alias occurence ids. However, the o...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Extending the accuracy of the input arrival date time

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avaid complicated workarounds, the input arrival date time needs a better accuracy - at least to seconds. By increasiny the accuracy of the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

GDPS LCPm must be able to cater for a mixture of virtual and physical airgapped SGC copies in a 4-site MGM configuration

In a 4-site MGM configuration with a physically air-gapped 5th site, we would like to have the ability to take a SGC in the production (or DR region) and on the 5th site. Currently, GDPS LCPm in a 4-site MGM configuration only supports virtual iso...
10 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend by limiting connections

The EQQSERVER uses memory under 16 MB. If many jobs use the EQQSERVER, we get an S878. To avoid downtime, the number of concurrent connections must be limited. The server task should reject or queue new incoming connections (e.g. a FIFO queue). To...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 4 Future consideration