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Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

RBAC for components & images

Provide read access right to individual images/components so only selected individuals/groups or all users have access to image.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

JVMServer (OSGI) log file rotation policy for zFs output files

As our production Cics regions are restarted once a week, the JVMServer zFs output log files grow very large in size (upto 1 GB). It is quite a challenge to load such large files in editor/viewer and analyze or search for valid information. Logfil...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add warning messages when reaching the number of connections (ZCEE Monitoring)

the impact of z/OS connect in our company is very important and can cause a shutdown of our customers services and this can have a negative impact on our zsystems for our business line Our z/OS sub systems have already some metrics that are self m...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need Capability of deploying to more than one target application region from Manage Bundle Deployment

We have Multiple LPARS and Multiple CICS Regions (200+). We ar exploring the uses of CICS Managed Bundle Deployment with CICSPLEX. We need to ability to specify more than one cics application region in the pom.xml document. Each LPAR has several e...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Change FM option modules to be standard PARMLIB "styled" members.

Convert FMN0POPT, FMN1POPT, FMN2POPT, and FMN3POPT to a PARMLIB that re read during product startup. This really has slowed down the install process because we need to apply usermods to our maintenance volumes and migrate to each system. When you ...
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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