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Create a Data Set Commander Messages Manual

Currently if there are Data Set Commander issues, it is difficult to find the DSC messages explanation and some of the messages can not even be found in IBM site or via Google. It is important to have an up-to-date messages manual to be available.
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Future consideration

Protect deletion of Dual Control tickets

Dual Control policy allows you to retain tickets for a specified period. We have set up to retain executed tickets for 52 weeks. However, VPCPDC00 (Dual Control Tickets panel) allows you to delete without any means to protect that from happening. ...
3 months ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhancement of the JCICS API

Among other things, we use the two EXEC CICS commands EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD and EXEC CICS VERIFY PHRASE in C and COBOL programs. As part of our migration to Java, we would also like to convert these C and COBOL programs to Java and need a corr...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz - CARMA/Endevor type processor group description

There is usually more than one processor group for each type. In order to know which processor group to choose, the programmer needs to use the description of processor groups. Choosing the wrong processor group can cause production failures. In t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

Supporting Larger Screen Sizes / Logmodes for NetView / System Automation Panels e.g. INGLIST

Hello NetView / SA Team, currently we are migrating from IBM AF/Operator to NetView SA at our side. And during this migration more and more inquiries are arriving that NetView only displays 62 rows at the most panels (e. g. INGLIST, DISPINFO, and ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

ingrchck needs to be updated to work with AUTWRK assignments

INGRCHCK halts the current shutdown commands of the task it was invoked for. The issue we are encountering is that if the task it is waiting for is running on the same autwrk tasks then the second task might not be able to shutdown as the commands...
8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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