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Change/increase MAXSOC for IMS Connect dynamically

The total number of sockets that IMS Connect supports across all TCP/IP ports at the same time is set by the MAXSOC parameter in the TCPIP configuration statement of the IMS Connect configuration member. If the number of sockets reaches the maximu...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Update 3270 interrupt handling (CCP4) to close security loopholes

When using a 3270 subchannel that had previously been used with another application, and that session had not been logged-off (LOGO), the new session will still be logged-on to that application. When CCP4 (in CLOA) detects an unsolicited device en...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Provide user exit in 3270 COMM SOURCE to handle LOGI security

Provide a user exit in the 3270 comm source package that will enter a customer-written program to display a sign-on screen for a user to enter credentials. The user exit will be responsible to display a secure 3270 welcome screen and to perform au...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Have the Serverdata created by the RPDATPRT EXEC in CSV format

Would like to have the Serverdata file created by the Rpdatprt exec to be stored in CSV format. We use this data for healthcheck purposes and need CSV format to upload the data into the HC tool we use.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Future consideration

TDS UAC Tolerance for Broadcom CA IDMS 19

Processing SMF generated data out of IDMS 19 no longer selects matches of out of the CIMSTBL list.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) ZRTMC collected data needs to include RHT and event table data

ZRTMC deliverables include NVPC data and CDC data. However, this data provides no insight into issues that may be due to processing contention. Primary sources of ECB contention are:1) the RHT 2) CORHC/ENCQC 3) hopefully less likely, but the addit...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Prevent RCL step restart JCLI Error under JES3

During step restart under IZWS Restart & Cleanup under JES3, the C/I component performs a catalog look-up on all the data sets of the job, not just starting from the restart step. The restart fails with a JCLERR because of the following JES3 C...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Change EQQN180W to EQQN180E and terminate NMM immediately

As documented in 65928,L6Q,000 and follow up internal PMR 77462,999,000 there is an easily recreatable way to compromise the integrity of the current plan by overwriting JT files which have not been archived. This needs to be prevented.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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