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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...
12 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Support for Extended Password Length and External Password Management

To align with modern security best practices, which recommend passwords exceeding 64 characters, the current limitation of 15 characters for the DBPSW parameter in the dbopt statement must be addressed. This will enable compliance with contemporar...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect doesn't have all standard OAUTH provider authentication methods implemented as per RFC 6749 and

z/OS Connect currently only supports either basic authentication or private key JWT authentication methods ( 2.3.1 . Client Password) in RFC 6749 while authenticating with OAUTH JWT providers to procure the JWT token and inject into the API call. ...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Changing variable substitution for sending emails when an alert condition occurs by the controller task to match the same behavior as job tailoring works

As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to various groups within the company, it is beneficial to minimize the variations in rules for variable substitution for users. Therefor...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

ETT Trigger Feature

A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

It should be possible to specify another RUNAWAY(ICVR) value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?).

It should be possible to have one ICVR value for when task is running on the QR TCB and other non-open TCBs, and anther value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?) This would enable us to allow larger ICVR values for tasks running on op...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Prevent errors during migration to a new zWS release by allocating files via EQQPCSxx jobs to have the same sizes and other characteristics as in the previous release

Currently the provided jobs (tailored by EQQJOBS) like EQQPCS01 and EQQPCS02 allocate tiny files with default characteristics. However most customers make changes, like increasing the allocation of the files (more cylinders) or modifying the MAXRE...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration