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GDPS/LCP with SGC in any SITE for MGM 4-SITE topology

We would like the ability to use GDPS/LCP to take a SGC capture in any of our 4 possible SITEs in a MGM 4-SITE topology. Today we have virtual isolated LCP and are taking SGC captures on our local Prod disk with our MzGM (XRC) 4-SITE, and then w...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

One-Click deployment of API & SAR

We request One-Click deployment for both APIs & SARS from the API Toolkit to z/OS Connect. Currently, we need to use FTP to transfer our APIs to the Mainframe. With developers reiteratively making changes to their APIs, this one-click enhancem...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs from one single LPAR

For debug isolation Start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell IMS system from one LPAR Today we need to start both regions manually from each LPAR with different job names. We want to be able to do this from one LPAR by selecting t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Eclipse - the FA plug-in to to have variables with invalid values highlighted in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays.

In Eclipse UI, there should be option to highlight the invalid values in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays. This will help user to be able to focus on what should be investigate. Now it's only plain text and hard to find where shou...
over 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

zUnit to be able to handle pointers in the linkage variables

Our cobol programs are utilizing pointer variables in the linkages. Using zUnit Test Case Input wizard, the copybooks referenced by the pointers are not seen resulting to not being able to provide input data to a test scenario. PMR 46883,122,000 i...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

Eliminate need for SYSUT3 in IQIBUTIL JCL

Sometimes when running IQIBUTIL (IEBCOPY replacement) it will fail and require the coding of the SYSUT3 work dataset in order for the copy to complete. This is troublesome when it is only sometimes needed and jobs will sometimes work but then fail...
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Provide an XPI to inquire on Feature Toggles

Raised at the CICS BP Conference and 1-1 with Colin Penfold. Please provide a way to inquiring on feature toggle settings
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases.

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases. Our corporate requirement for security passwords is a 10 character passphrase. We are unable to use the product without the 10 character passphrase.RACF an...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

Lift restriction impose by the number of non system LX

Currently the maximum number of linkage index (LX) allowed for CICS is 2048. In our shop we have over 700+ CICS regions running in the same LPAR. Each CICS consumes 2-4 LX. This leaves no room for other batch job which has the need to use LX and c...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Set open mode by filter configuration

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. Preferences allow to change the default open mode to browse or view, which often is unhandy in some situations. The same option on a per filter basis would be much more comfortable...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

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