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Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Extend ABO 2.2 support to z13

Our customer who use z13 wants to use ABO. Since ABO V2.2 supports only z14 or higher, they can't use. ABO V2.1 supports z13, however, ABO V2.1 was already EOMed.
about 2 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Planned for future release

IDz/CARMA - new package status "Execute Failed"

Would like to see a new Package status of "Execute Failed" in CARMA. When I select IN-APPROVAL and APPROVED, I see Endevor packages that are in those statuses but also see packages that are in exec failed status. Please include a Package status of...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Future consideration

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