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WAPL: Create same ability of CLDATE to select specific days of the week for PRDATE

We are in the process of automating calendars and periods with WAPL. The function of CLDATE has the capability to select days of the week but PRDATE does not.
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Prepare the PMT (Preserver Mirror Tools) to manage the registration/deletion of devices both at the Metro Mirro level and at the MGM level.

If I'm not confused, currently the PMT can only be run to be able to manage (high/low) devices at the Metro Mirror level. In a GDPS MGM3SITE (or MGM4SITE) environment, we can only use the PMT for the MTMM part. It would be interesting to be able t...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

REGEX Function like in PL/I

Hi IBM, you've delivered the REGEX function in PL/I for the use of regular expressions in string searches. This would be nice in Cobol as intrinsic function too. Regards, Michael
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 12 Planned for future release

Issue a GEOxxxxxI message every time an LCP SGC capture expires, including a creation timestamp in the message information

This would allow customers relying on LCP for cyber security to monitor the expiration of capture to ensure that no captures were being expired outside of agreed time limits.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend

The EQQSERVER uses storage below 16 MB. If we have a lot of jobs using EQQSERVER, we get an S878.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Need CDPz integration to support TWSplex with standby controller

Dear support, We Morgan Stanley mainframe team would like to adopt CDPz integration to collect real-time messages to analyze. In our environment we installed TWS as plex with both primary controller and standby controller. Currently we enabled CDP...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add API REST upload-dir-to-pds to RSE API

Hi, It would be useful to have an API REST in RSE API which allows us to upload a directory to a PDS. This functionality has been implemented for rse-api-for-zowe-cli but it does not exist in the Java SDK. For now, we have to launch several comman...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Enable ZOAU to support PDSE Member Generations

Please enable all ZOAU PDS processing to support PDSE Member Generations. Member Generations have been available since PDSE Version 2 was released over a decade ago and more sites are starting to take advantage of them. Using ZOAU should work and ...
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future 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

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