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Report for System Information regarding zCentric workstations in IWSz

For ABNAMRO client, that has hundreds of zCentric workstations, a periodic report is required for System Information regarding zCentric workstations. That is the information you can see in 5.5 dialogue in IWSz (ISPF) with the "I" line command. E.g...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Proposal for enhanced z/TPF DNS Client behavior and alerting

The recent exchange between the IBM z/TPF Lab and DXC in the Support Case TS016560816 has suggested that IBM would be open to considering enhancements to the behavior and/or alerting for the DNS client processing associated with gethostbyname and ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

NetView Threshold Improvement

Improve NetView message trap condition item THRESHOLD to work with not elapsed time period.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Enhance INITCHECK so it catches the use of uninitialized indexes in SEARCH statements

The frequent programming error of forgetting to set an index before a SEARCH is not being detected by INITCHECK. In the following example program, the index U150-ACT-IND-IDX is erroneously not set before the SEARCH U150-TRANX-ACT-IND-DATA line. Wi...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the APAR level of the TADz/IZSAM scan agent used to create scan file

Every month we receive many thousands of IZSAM scan files from client systems around the world. Often we receive queries as to why their QMF has not been correctly identified, or other issues that have already been resolved by the developers. In m...
6 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect to support the token being returned from the authorization server in a custom field in an OAuth 2.0 flow

We are using the z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support to obtain an access token from our EUA Authorization server. This retrieves the access token from the “access_token” field of the JSON response, as per the OAuth 2.0 specification. In the response th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

support us to allow only one session for one user at a time through DWC.

It is possible now that multiple sessions can be started for a single user at a same time. Multiple sessions can lead to data integrity issues when concurrent access to the same data is allowed. We must restrict the no of sessions for the same use...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

DRF XF - Function to verify all recovery assets for a time range, and give report at individual asset level

In DRF Extended Functions I would like a new feature that would allow me to give a time span, either a date range, or ideally a number of days in the past, on either the VERIFY or HCHECK function that would confirm each recovery asset for the enti...
over 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

When an operation is restarted, nothing currently in the EQQAUDIT report or in the EQQMLOG documents what TYPE of restart command was used (RERUN, RC, SJR, FSR, FJR, etc) and what type of restart (STEP restart, JOB restart) and the selected step for the restart (if any). This information would be useful in troubleshooting issues with restart.

An incorrect restart of an operation (restarted from wrong step, restarted with wrong type of restart command) can cause a lot of problems in an operational zWS environment. There is currently no way to tell what type of restart was done from the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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