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Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Compute node HA

HA for compute node services (pcs nova, cinder, neutron etc)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

CL/SuperSession: Change RACROUTE Calls to GLOBAL=YES

*** Note: This is for "CL/SuperSession"; I was unable to locate this product in the drop-down boxes *** Please change RACROUTE calls to use GLOBAL=YES instead of GLOBAL=NO (or provide a new PARMLIB option to control this), so that SAF calls are pr...
about 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch

To display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch job
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Possibility to define WS that are able to submit even with JOBSUBMIT(NO)

We migrated from IBM AF/Operator to IBM System Automation. A lot of stuff from AFOP was implemented into SAz with IWSz/TWS integration. We use WS in TWS for SAz with Automation=Yes, the Domain Workstations and separate WS for normal jobs that are ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

For CHNG calls during OTMA transactions processing, used a cached ACEE

When OTMA transactions with OTMASEC=FULL make a CHNG call to another transaction, IMS creates a new ACEE in the MPP. There is already an ACEE for the USERID of the transactions in the IMS Control Region. IMS should use that existing cached ACEE (o...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Object Type - CLASS in Monitor Resources panel

It would be very useful to have an option to define Object Type - CLASS and use it when creating identical/similar monitor resources as it is with applications. Could you please update the Monitor Resources panel to have an option to choose Object...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

IDz - Deselection of common routines in 'Program Control Flow'

Hello In the IDz test version 14.2.3.x or 15.0.x, there are multiple flow lines represented for a common routines where ever it is referred through. As a result, program control graphical view becomes unreadable and highly clustered. It's good hav...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

TPFUG: Move APIs under "SOAP bridge related APIs" in c_soap.h to another header file as they are more general use APIs, and IBM is deprecating SOAP and don't want to lose the code

Programs that use primarily the "tpf_convertToAMSG()" and "tpf_convertFromOMSG()" APIs under the "SOAP bridge related APIs" in c_soap.h are more general use APIs. IBM is not going to support SOAP after this summer so we'd like these APIs to be mov...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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