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GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
about 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

DELAY statement under CICS for millisecond range

Presently the DELAY statement in Enterprise PLI/I for z/OS supports milliseconds only for Batch – under CICS-Environment it rounds down to the nearest second. It would be helpful if it also works for CICS in the millisecond range – especially if t...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

FTDC for GDPS/LCP SGC Capture failures - ODDs to disk

GDPS/PPRC has not been reliably taking ODDs in all GDPS/LCP SGC capture failures that we've seen. As a result, IBM DASD microcode has not been able to determine why several of our SGC captures have failed. This idea is to enhance GDPS/LCP first ti...
6 months ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

Add support for usage of data area for arrays in the request of API Clients using top down approach with z/OS Connect open api 3

When generating data structures for an API requester based on an OpenAPI file that includes an array in the request parameters, Gradle generates a data structure using a data area. However this is not supported right now since the host api verb BA...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Allow paste to overwrite to end of line

Other 3270 emulators, such as Attachmate Extra! have the ability for a paste to overwrite to end of line, and not just by the length of the copied data. I would like to see this ability in PCOMM. When copying data, you should be able to flag a set...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

GDPS RACF SAMPLE FILE

SA provides SAF configuration support, which provides a sample file for configuring RACF groups and NETCMDS profiles configuration for SA. GDPS could provide similar sample file for RACF to externalize the security of IBM SA and GDPS configuration...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

Override ConnectionRef in .ara file to address multiple RESTFul endpoints

API Requester scenario. 2 different environments , SVIL1 and SVIL2, sharing the same ZCNEE instance. There are 2 RESTful endpoints, one for SVIL1 and one for SVIL2 (they can also be API managers, like APIConnect) The same CICS program is deployed ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

IWS CPU usage improvement for ETT data set CLOSE events

Each IWS tracker subsystem on z/OS gets control during data set CLOSE processing in order to check, if this event is related to an ETT-defined data set (ETT = Event Triggered Tracking) in the EQQDSLST-file.If EQQDSLST contains many entries (severa...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release