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Enhance Licence Manager fixes release

Implement proper version control and provide fix list for each version release of IBM Host Integration License Manager. As en example on fix central you can find: fix pack: HI_v13.0.0_LicenseManger fix pack: HI_13.0_LicenseManager for the product ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sharing one Java Shared Classcache between different users and its restrictions

We plan to use the Java Shared Classcache for our Java Batch Jobs to improve CPU usage and performance of our batch jobs. The batch jobs use for security reasons different users but should share one classcache. Sharing the same Shared Class Cache ...
11 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Set return codes for INGRCRDX when editing

The ISPF EDIT service provides return codes which provide guidance as to whether a data was saved or not: Return codes 0 Normal completion; data was saved. 4 Normal completion; data was not saved for one of these reasons. • No data changes were ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

OTMA orphaned TIBs clean up

On May 26th, 2022, we had an incident due to IMS was reaching the maximum limit of TIBs As per the analysis, the situation was being caused by orphaned TIBs (case TS009519474) According to the analysis, some transactions coming from MQ-OTMA did...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

Add CPSMOBJ resource to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records

Hi Team,Request is to add CPSMOBJ to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records.Adding CPSMOBJ will help us to monitor if any exposure to CPSM objects or CICS resources through CMAS.
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Ability to determine if any CICS transactions have debug session active

Currently there is no way to query if any CICS transaction have debug sessions active
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

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