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Improve performance of C++ try/catch when exception is thrown

Our coding best practice guidelines advise developers not to use the try-throw-catch method in C++ code for control of the program flow or transaction validation as the underlying TPF mechanism for identifying the source of the thrower results in ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

LCP - Some warning should show up in a script in case you do LCP recover from a Partial Backup

LCP captures/Safe Guarded Copy are immutable copies/backups. So we better make sure that these backups are complete - not missing a volume or more. When you start a IBM z Cybervault sysplex, i call it a recovery sysplex, manually or full automated...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

GDPS GEOPARM CONFIG

We have an Environment where is a Bi-Direction Global Mirror with one Global Mirror being Active, This Allows us to Failover and then Failback for Siteswap. The GEOPARM in the Reverse Direction could not be validated currently as there is active R...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...
10 months ago in GDPS 2 Future consideration

Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
3 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Update zoau mvscmd to support --cmd= for tso commands

The zoau mvscmd supports the --steplib= for a --pgm=program. Please add an option to invoke a tso command such as --cmd=command and then the --args= would be parameters passed to the tso command. This would fill the void the default tsocmd lacks a...
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Need PCOMM FTP to support implicit TLS (no AUTH TLS)

Currently the PCOMM FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

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