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Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IZBR backup syntax structure to facilitate common language regardless of backup engine

IZBR supports backup tracking for a variety of z/OS backup utilities. Often a client running IZBR will incorporate IZBR specific backup procs based on a specific utility. When that client choses to adopt a new solution they can be faced with mass ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 1 Future consideration

Alert on HALFDOWN

By default, System Automation creates an alert (INGALERT) if an application goes into BROKEN, ZOMBIE or STOPPED (OS_PROBLEM). HALFDOWN is a status as bad as the others and requires intervention (compound=problem), but SA doesn't react the same way...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support passing Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java

We would like to pass Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java. Currently this is only supported using ROY IMS Connect clients or using IMS TM Resource Adapter. Our main IMS Connect client is written in Java and uses t...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

ACM, Authentication over TCP/IP

Hello,the problem is the authentication on access ACM.Which option(s) do we have to deny a potential attacker the access to these critical functions while allowing it to ACM? I have understood that the protocol of the service is complex and diffic...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Prevent loading DFDL files into wrong folder

I opened case TS008515710 for an issue we had where a programmer loaded a DFDL file for a business event into the wrong folder. APAR PJ46741 was opened to address this issue by ignoring files in the loader that were going to the wrong folder. Our ...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

software profiler weighted message

The request is for the software profiler to use weighted message rate like Data reduction is using. In addition it would be useful to show what traces are enabled as part of the run.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Limit the size of drag and drop file in RDz

Need a way to control the file size for the "drag and drop" action from host to local. If the file size exceed a predefined value, the action should fail.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS Enhanced Security Authentication

Our internal security requirements team have asked us to reach out to IBM to request Enhanced CICS Security Authentication
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Support VSAM RLS access in node.js

VSAM files read/write are performed in CICS and batch applications in MVS. For node.js to access the data concurrently, VSAM RLS is required.
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 1 Future consideration