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SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

IBM Knowledge Catalog is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Ability to leverage the qos of the mainframe to find, understand, curate and access data.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 1 Submitted

Match 360 is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Able to provide 360 view of clients a cloud native environment in Open Shift on Linux on z
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 1 Submitted

Support for Watson Query on Linux on z

Data virtualization (Watson query) is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 1 Submitted

IM Change Detection ability to compare using subset of time frame.

We have Near Real Time (NRT) environment where we process the data every day from 8 am - 9am, 9 am - 12pm and 2pm - 3 pm SMF time frame. We want ability to select custom time range and use same time range for comparison for every reference period ...
3 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable Application Performance Analyzer in VS Code

Provide VS Code extension for Application Performance Analyzer
3 months ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement of the JCICS API

Among other things, we use the two EXEC CICS commands EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD and EXEC CICS VERIFY PHRASE in C and COBOL programs. As part of our migration to Java, we would also like to convert these C and COBOL programs to Java and need a corr...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 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

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration