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INGLKUP to expand EXLUDE functions to multiple fields not just jobname

Currently INGLKUP uses UET INGLKUP EXCLUDE to compare against the D J,L command to see what jobs to exclude. Sometimes the standards are in the Step name or Procstep name and it would be nice if the exclude list was enhanced to allow the user to s...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer

After migrated to CTGV9.1 we get an error CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer we are working with both TGV8.0 that V9.1 and problem occurs only with last version 9.1 seems that , working with prev...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

System Automation possibility to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF

During the planned IPL of one of the Lpars in our enterprise (18 Lpars), the gateways to/from this Lpar to all the other Lpars are disconnected (of course). This results in a red message on the gateway panel on all the other lpars.Especially when ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Continuation line for conditional compilation directives

A line of COBOL source code, limited to columns 8 to 72, to express a complex compilation condition, (>>if, >>when), with variables names that can be relatively long, is not sufficient.It is necessary to use artifices by using intermed...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Creation of a data set growth metric suitable for identifying abnormal data set level growth.

Customer's are often challenged with identifying culprit data sets and applications when storage group growth exceeds expectations. Often subject storage groups can be several TB's large and identifying excessive growth at the dataset level cannot...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Client 0 Future consideration

GatewayConnection Async support

We would like to have async version for gateway.Flow(eciReq) method in order not to block the current thread while waiting response from Mainframe.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table

Request is to update ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table when the LOCAL parameter is not supplied (replacing current process of using the default local IP address).
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Requesting for 64bit version of the C++ Zap

We're using Hourglass V7.1 on Z/OS 2.3The application programmers have introduced a new version of an existing legacy program. The new code is not picking up hourglass date. The only difference between the batch jobs is the application program. Th...
about 3 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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