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Fix typos in SMPE install jobs

Hi, Almost all the SMPE jobs includedw with "IBM Open Enterprise Foundation 1.1.0" , contain text in cols 73 to 80. It'd be great if the text stayed within columns 1-72 so less manual editing was needed. Thanks, Travis
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Conditional reorg check for new KEYLABEL in RACF

We are encrypting our IMS Databases. We store the encryption KEYLABEL in RACF on the Dataset Profile. Over time, we may change the KEYLABEL, to switch to quantum safe algorithms for example, and would like the conditional reorg to detect this chan...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 4 Planned for future release

Add DD statement to provide member selection in File Manager Batch.

Currently, the member selection is within the SYSIN DD statement in a File Manager batch. It will be more usable if the member selection can be provided via a DD statement in the JCL. Benefit of this change is when the members list is created dyna...
almost 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

GDPS and support for IPL of Recovery LPARs. To be script executed from GDPS Controlling master

Lack of support in GDPS related to handling of Recovery sysplexes/proxies when we use GDPS/LCP functionality.
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

Eliminate the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME as it is not necessary and causes many problems

Currently the SSCMNAME can be coded as (EQQSSCMx,TEMPORARY) or (EQQSSCMx,PERMANENT) where x is a subsystem suffix (for instance letter O for 10.1 release). However it is not necessary to have the TEMPORARY option as to go to the different release ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Modify the iOS (iPad) virtual keyboard for HACP Extended Edition so that it does not cover the 3270 emulator session.

HACP Extended Edition is being evaluated a replacement solution to legacy handheld scanners used to connect to mainframe 3270 emulation sessions. In the current state, the iPad virtual keyboard covers portions of the ISPF 3270 session, making it d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions. Repeated.....

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That increases the importance for protection of our user scripts. User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.If you have access to execute ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Make larger fonts available

With the advent of larger Personal Computer screens, it would make sense to allow larger fonts to be used. For example, I have a with a resolution of 1920x1080. If I want PCOM to use the full screen, the terminal window can take up the full screen...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release