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OOS tracks in MGM3SITE recovery region

When production is failed over in the RECOVERY region, we will be in Global copy from C-B. When we are ready for failing back to main region, we run the MGM3SITE_GOHOME_CAS_RS1_RS1. During that, it will ensure EMPTYOOS. However, if there are lot o...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

GDPS and LCP reporting

We don't want to face errors when using GDPS and LCP. First suggestion.We ask for a way to automatically monitor and a proactive report on the virtual Capacity used values before a volumes Safe Guarded Capacity(SGC) runs full. Today in GDPS panel ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

Add CEC info to GDPS panel VPCPSTD1

GDPS panel VPCPSTD1 includes an 8 char column with LPARname. However, from this panel an user cannot determine which CEC an LPAR is defined on.It is possible to have duplicate LPARnames on different CECs. This is useful if system instances are mov...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

DEFV Batch Function

Is it possible to include the SMS parameters such as DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS and STORCLAS to the output? It would make much easier to create similar datasets.
about 2 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

TLVLOG output

It would be useful to create another way of Dataset to collect the output of TLVLOG. This new way could allow to collect it in several datasets that would avoid to have a huge sequential dataset with all the TLVLOG from long time. For example, a GDG.
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

support COBOL/Java interoperability

With Cobol 6.4 COBOL/Java interoperability was improved but we can not build such a Programm using DBB out of the box. We need the following. 1) Dependency Scanner should detect the following JAVA-CALLABLE directive JAVA-SHAREABLE directive Enhanc...
11 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

GDPS RACF SAMPLE FILE

SA provides SAF configuration support, which provides a sample file for configuring RACF groups and NETCMDS profiles configuration for SA. GDPS could provide similar sample file for RACF to externalize the security of IBM SA and GDPS configuration...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

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