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IBM z-open editor extension on Visual Studio Code support for C/C++

Some users still use C/C++ in their shop. Adding C/C++ support in the IBM z-open editor extension will benefit with DBB.
3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / VSCODE 0 Under review

Availability to set an application or operation deadline using either +x Calendar day or +x Working day

The deadline offset is defaulted to Working day and may be overriden using OPERDALL parameter in the BATCHOPT when running Long Term plan maintenance. That parameter is global and not targeting specific operations.
12 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
about 1 month ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
3 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
about 1 month ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Use 64-bit storage for OTMA TPIPEs

Nowadays OTMA is one of the most important pieces in IMS. Given the big range of TCP/IP clients is quite difficult to manage OTMA TPIPEs in a complex scenario. Although the latest development enhancements are more than welcome, they aren't fixing ...
4 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Submitted

Allow multiple selections for DSORG selection keyword

Enhance the DSORG selection keyword to allow for multiple selections to enable OR processing for an INCLUDE statement. Only allowing a single selection requires multipe duplicate INCLUDE statements which complicates the rule definitions and subseq...

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
4 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Selecting some charts (e.g. Page Frames) is useful to do per CEC. Currently, a manual filter needs to be set. We should add the CEC name to the appropriate tables, even though it may not be in the specific SMF record.

Some charts make more sense when viewed at a CEC level. Real storage is an example. Currently, the customer needs to ensure that they manually set a filter to limit the reporting to a specific CEC. We should simply support the CEC name as an addit...
4 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

When adding multiple metrics to a chart, we always go back to the top of the list. We should reshow the list after the last metric that was added (they are shown alphabetically).

This is slightly annoying to have to page down again (sometimes many pages) to get back to where you just were. We should reshow the list after the last metric that was added (they are shown alphabetically).
4 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted