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Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
about 2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IZPCA: New subtype record definition for SMF 119

Hello,related to TCP/IP for z/OS Component on IZPCA, we ask you the possibility to define new record for SMF 119 for following subtype:SMF 119_41 SMC-R link group statistics recordSMF 119_42 SMC-R link state start recordSMF 119_43 SMC-R link state...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

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.
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

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