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Allow IEASYMxx member to read system variable context from IPLPARM member or SYS1.dataset file.

Allow IEASYMxx to ready system variable from file, or IPLPARM member
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

z/OS IMS Online Application configuration within IDz client

Currently within IDz there are two ways of setting debugger configuration for Batch Applications: 1) z/OS Batch Application using property group 2) z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL However for IMS configuration there is no setting to setu...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

Externalise all error messages to the SYSLOG

Please add all Joblog Error messages to the SYSLOG so that it can be used to automate/trigger altering through OPS MVS. This is needed from the AGM Interceptor from zCEE and CICS, as well as the Base Component. Thank you
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Remote Connection Emulator - Screen Size 62x160

Screen size 62x160 has been support by other emulators such as Host Emulator and HOD. Most of our workstations have large screens. With 62x160 setup, we can view so much more of mainframe data in 1 screen than scrolling right and down. There are p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Externalize X'4032' Checkpoint Log record layout

Provide a DSECT and/or layout of the data within the X'4032' checkpoint log record " OTMA TPIPE/QAB/TIB/MTE/MCB". The main use we have in mind for this is we'd be able to see the ENQCT, DEQCT, QCT for all Tpipes at a given checkpoint. Similar to w...
5 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

Configuration of DBB in IDz similar to ‘zapp.yaml’ in VSCode.

We would like to use a defined ‘zapp.yaml’ in IDz as it is configured in VSCode. So it would be much easier for the user to use the build. It is quite complicated to setup the user build for a normal host user. And it would be perfect to let the d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration