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IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a new feature to start DRF SAS according to SORTPARM(NUM(nnn)) even if STACK was specified.

The customer ran into a problem where thousands of output image copies were taken after a recovery during DR exercise because STACK keyword was not specified (STACK causes all the DBs in that recovery profile to be pointed to one IDRF0001 job and ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Cross Dependency: "Real Time" status in shadow Job

If we use automatic recovery statements (e.g. to insert a new application as new predecessor) the workstation status of shadow jobs don't change from E to W. IWS changes the status of the shadow job after the recovery action is completed (the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Update ZDHST with NVP and ECB Owner Data

As we continue to increase our use of Name-Value Pairs(NVPs) for troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the NVP area has become crucial to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve test and production issues. Most of our dumps ...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

CICS region id and CICS default id should not be same .

Hi , In CICS We will have CICS REGION id and CICS Default id and, both id should be used differently , and Security access also have to be different. in current scenario in SIT DFLTUSER={CICSUSER|userid} , if we code DFLTUSER=CICREGID ( where DFLT...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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