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Graceful Switch should be able to restart at the point of last break

GDPS/A-A 1.7 does not provide capability to restart the switch process at the last break point for graceful switch and force switch. It only provide a WTOR when STOP QREP timeout. It is far from customer's requirements.
over 7 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Improved autonomics for Lifeline Advisor automatic takeovers

Several customers have asked for the ability to identify scenarios where a Lifeline Advisor takeover can be done automatically without risk of having two primary Lifeline Advisors active at the same time.
over 7 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

HOD 12 removed the 'go hod' menu where HOD server is configued, started, stopped, monitored and other functions

When HOD 12 was installed on AS/400 system, it was noticed that the 'go hod' menu was not longer available. This is a major function for the iSeries admins that was removed and no announce that it would be removed. This menu was in previous versio...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

GDPS/A-A support for manual fence/unfence of DB2 workload tables

GDPS/A-A needs to provide the ability to manually fence and unfence the DB2 tables associated with a workload. The ROUTING SWITCH command performs fencing, but we need a means to manually control this. Needed to fix failures during the switch proc...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

For TXSeries 8.1 and above on AIX, users(whose group set is cics) can check the status by cicslssrc.

For TXSeries 8.1 and above on AIX, users(whose group set is cics) can check the status by cicslssrc. For TXSeries 7.1 and earlier versions on AIX, cicslssrc just calls lssrc provided by AIX, so all users can execute it.But for TXSeries 8.1 on AIX,...
almost 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

GEO-479 (Intesa) Support for percentage of track resynched in a GM/MGM environment

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: mauro.melli@intesasanpaolo.comSubmitters Company: Intesa Sanpaolo PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-479 (Intesa) Support for percentage of track resynched in a GM/MGM environmentHomework Assigned: NoRequirement...
about 9 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

An option to create empty SAMDS output files (RBD 9.11 / Generation for VSE)

EGL doesn't provide a method to create empty output files, whereas in native Cobol, output file is created within the open statement. In a mixed environment (EGL, native Cobol, CA Easytrieve) we have, this shortage in EGL causes extra logic to be ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Planned for future release

No hourly statistics for DFSMS DCOLLECT

the DFSMS component only collects at daily level, could you think about the creation of an hourly table, for exemple a DFSMS_VOLUME_H could help in the daily peak analisis for a Storage Group given.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

CDATA-section support when using webservices.

Sending binary data through a webservice is not possible. The webservice will crash. Also, our users regularly seem to manage to enter illegal characters which after being sent or received by a webservice will make the webservice crash. Adding the...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Planned for future release

Need to be able to specified the schema name for storing VSAM files in a database.

We need to be able to configure the schema name to store in database a VSAM files.The tables emulating the VSAM file are always stored in a schema named CICS.
over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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