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Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Make the LE enclave persistent in IMS MPPs without the need of a JVM running in the message region

With API provider and z/OS Connect configured in MPP there is a requirement to set the LLE with POSIX(ON), this drives massive volumes of SMF030 records to be created which leads to issues at offload. from IBM IMS development: From what we have se...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve FFDC for GDPS

In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

Debug a Cobol program (6.3) using LangX side file

With Cobol 6, we cannot debug programs using LANGX side files. We would like to continue using this feature as we were able to do with Cobol 4 programs
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Kafka UI for DG

Kafka UI offers several advantages that can significantly enhance the management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of your Kafka environment. Advantages : Real-time Monitoring: Kafka UI provides real-time metrics and status of Kafka brokers, topics...
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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