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Enhancement to XCF buffer processing

Enhance XCF Buffer processing used by DFHIRP for inter-region communication. At present it is possible to exhaust the pool of XCF buffers leading to recursive SVC dumps in DFHIRP causing broad system impact. The ability to specify the size of the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Looking for Multi-Factor Authentication support for SAIOM

I have accounts I support that are looking for SAIOM to support MFA, as some of the regulations/restrictions they are required to adhere to require MFA.
over 2 years ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Future consideration

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search. In critical in case we have 500+ elements for DBB

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search in situations where the customer needs to handle 500+ elements for DBB.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Future consideration

PIF function enhance

We can see the data in panel EQQLSTAP by using ISPF. But she can not not get "Current plan end" time and "Long term plan end" time data onetime by using PIF. [Please refer the below panel image] <My customer request> She wants new function i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) lodic_ext needs CHECKONLY equivalent support

There is no support for c/c++ applications to use LODIC core resource classes that only target specific core block types. As a result we have to either write our own TPFISOC type functions that issue specific LODIC CHECKONLY calls, or use a user L...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Add "Associate Complete Program" to the RSE

In z/OS project view, "Associate Complete Program" appears when a user right clicks on a PL/I Include file or a COBOL copybook.But it is not available when a user right clicks on these types of files from the RSE view.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Specify relative time for Operation Not Started alerts

The Operation Not Started Alert/Action options were useful enhancements to IBM Z Workload Scheduler V9R5. But they can't be used in all scenarios. We have IzWS applications that run multiple times daily at random times usually event triggered (e.g...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

No spaces after brackets by IDz COBOL formatter

Currtently the formatter (CTRL+Shift+F) inserts a blank after each opening bracket "(" oder before each closing bracket ")". This is annoying and should be at configurable.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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