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Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Planned for future release

GDPS Consistent FlashCopy should not disable Hyperswap

GDPS Metro is disabling Hyperswap prior to Consistent FlashCopy. As we were told by IBM this is no longer necessary. We would like to get it eliminated to have less Hyperswap disabled moments. There will be the risk, that a HS trigger happens whil...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Provide IZTA support for DB2 Tables with name more than 8 Characters

IZTA only support DB2 tables with name up to 8 characters. Requesting IZTA to support tables with more than 8 characters. This will avoid the programming changes needed to map the IZTA tables in the application. 1-O-1 mapping with the same name in...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

Be able to change margins in PCOMM

We have users that are copying and pasting text to/from an CICS-application, but the almost missing margins make it harder. The margins are not always that small, it seems to happen with text. An example is the system log in SDSF in z/OS. Only the...
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Larger packet size needed for IND$FILE and P-COMM download/upload

I request the next version/release of IBM P-COMM (and corresponding IND$FILE in MVS/TSO) to allow larger SendBufferSize values (e.g. 64000, 128000, 256000, 512000, 1024000, 2048000, 4096000, 8192000). This is needed for faster download/upload spee...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

PLI record support for QSAM

Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Planned for future release