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SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

Add SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE to WAPL LIST GENDAYS

With WAPL, the LIST GENDAYS can be used to generate the passage dates for a RULE. Unfortunately, SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE cannot be encoded in LIST GENDAYS. So the dates determined are wrong. However, the GENDAYS for this interactive RULE does take ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDz/CARMA - new package status "Execute Failed"

Would like to see a new Package status of "Execute Failed" in CARMA. When I select IN-APPROVAL and APPROVED, I see Endevor packages that are in those statuses but also see packages that are in exec failed status. Please include a Package status of...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Future consideration

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