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PPRC to XRC Load Address Synchronisation

For GDPS 3 site we require an automated mechanism within GDPS that synchronises any changes made from the PPRC site load address value to the the XRC load address value. These updates should be made in “real time” and only be made if a system name...
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

registry entry LastExitViewFromINI customizable during installation

it would be very helpful for us, when we could decide wether registry entry LastExitViewFromINI is set to T or F during installation since there are different scenarios on our site for the usage of pcom. scenario 1: installation on personalized wo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Need to filter on Jobs that are NP - NOP oper

There is a need to filter on operations that have been set to NP in panel ID EQQSOPFP. This would be much like filtering on operations set to MH (Manual Hold) NP - NOP (no operation). IWSz will set the status of the operation to complete when the ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Provide compatibility between DB2 v13 and CICS Interdependency Analyzer

We are upgrading to DB2 v13 and were informed that CICS IA is not compatible with this new version - we learned this via our IBM ticket TS013775865. They suggested that we submit an RFE if we would like this to be enhanced to support DB2 v13. We w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Customize colums in HILM report outputs according to DSGVO

We've got requirement because of DSGVO we are not allowed to show Systemuser Field in generated reports.So we would need the following extensions: * Administrators can customize which fields are available for non administrative users that can view...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

CPBPLIM should not be allowed to exceed 50% and ALL DEPS nesting level default should be less than 99

The CPBPLIM parameter can have values up to 99 which means 99% of memory is reserved for current plan buffers and 1% is available for everything else. This leads to memory related abends such as S878. Similarly the "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" in panel EQ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release