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Automatically Determine Host User ID When Connecting to a Remote System via Certificate Authentication

In z/OS Explorer, all Remote System connection types (FTP, SSH, z/OS, etc.) are by default set to the user ID of the workstation that the client is installed on. To change the Default ID for various connections a user can navigate to Windows/Prefe...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect batch archive reporting capability

Provide an automated capability to archive log stream data to long term storage. A batch process should be provided to report detail data from selected archives.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Delivered

Please update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds

The current implementation only allows hour-mins-secs to be collected in SMF123. We would like to get milliseconds into the report.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Optimization to check the Cross-Application boxes in AD Configuration Service Admin

We would like to have the possibility of checking the box to add Cross-application in projects at once (without going through all the projects). Or that the box is checked by default when creating the project. Or have a MS-DOS command line to auto...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

Include Client ID in IP Address Rules

Please include the option to include Client ID in IP Address Rules, in addition to IP address, IMS Connect Name & Port. Example resource to define would be: CEX.IPV4.iconname.010.101.026.154.port.L@0VPV Defined with UACC(NONE), then permitted ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / All components 2 Delivered

Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

GDPS/LCP panel security

As outlined in our case TS005575235 we think it is a major issue that GDPS does not have panel security for LCP. It appears as though any internal user with GDPS access can go in and adjust the LCP management profile and change the retention perio...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

RDz - Expanded COBOL source should support COPY ... REPLACING

In a source where no syntax errors are present, the expanded source does show errors. This is due to the fact that the COPY ... REPLACING statement is not fully executed. Only the original copybook is presented in the source, but the replacing act...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Add the parameter CPYMBR to the FCH command

We are replacing some PDSMAN programs with File Manager. The best choice is the FCH File Manager function. However, PDSMAN supports multiple members in a list, or multiple member wild card selections in a list. This is supported by the DSC functio...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

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