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Full Hyperswap Support for IDAA on z/OS (SSC)

In discussions when preparing to start out PoC for IDAA on z/OS GDPS Support, it was shared that Hyperswap is not fully supported in SSC like a z/OS LPAR, and it takes an actual outage because the IDAA instance needs to be restarted after the swap...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

z/OS Connect support for mutiple Single Sign On algorithms

Our enterprise single sign on capability can use one of two different algorithms. Unfortunately, z/OS Connect looks specifically for one or the other – not both. And this can then cause a failure when receiving one it does not expect. Our request ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add the capability of creating custom HTTP headers for API Requesters

Our web-proxy gateways and API registrars require additional custom headers. Since these headers aren’t required by our API Providers, they usually aren’t in the OAS3 doc. Examples of what we use are: ConsumerId, ContextId, RequestId, and x- Gatew...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Search on Unicode character strings in File manager MVS

Is it possible to change the functions of File manager MVS to allow the specification of Unicode character strings ?File Manager will convert these Unicode character strings into an internal hexadecimal character string in the File Manager templat...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide Troubleshooting section in documentation

When running builds which fail/abend in an MVSExec or another Unix System Services process, it can lead return codes which are difficult to troubleshoot. Users have reported their trouble with diagnosing these issues in the community repositories:...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 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

Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Enhance testing capability of SYSPLEX RESOURCES

We have a test environment for GDPS/Metro that is contained within one physical disk subsystem. The TEST=YES option is used in the GEOPARM to tolerate this setup. We would like this TEST=YES feature extended to accommodate the SYSPLEX RESOURCE MAN...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Add support for HWIREST to JZOS

BCPii is an important z/OS specific API that currently supports several languages but NOT Java. Having this support within JZOS would make java applications relying on HWI communications (such as monitoring applications or system automation tasks)...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Left/Right Control Key Mapping for Remote Connection Emulator for Improved Adoption of Migrating User from Host Connection Emulator

I have created Remote Connection Emulator configurations and the connection is working, however, there is a challenge I am facing to remap the enter key to be the CTRL key. I can see in preferences Remote Connection Emulator is mentioned but the k...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration