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Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage
over 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Ability to specify MSGCLASS for Subordinate Address Spaces

When running a Database Recover Facility batch job (FRXSDR00) to recover an IMS Database, subordinate address spaces are spawned. Would like a way to specify the MSGCLASS of those subordinate address spaces.
11 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Password encryption on dex.yaml

Noticed that in dex.yaml the LDAP bind password is plain text . We should never use plain text password which is GIS violation. Please provide fix to use encrypted password or any other method where we don't have to use plain text password in dex....
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

API for admin dashbord

To improve automation capability setting up, creating and managing projects that in normal case require manual intervention through the dashboard. I propose to add a api to do the same tasks through some kind of api (http, config-file or cli) to b...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

SUBJOBUSER to support control via RACF SURROGAT profiles

The SUBJOBUSER user field feature introduced by PH35729 allows IzWS operations to specify the submission user as the value associated with SUBJOBUSER. But there is no RACF validation of what is effectively surrogate user submission once the SUBJOB...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Deleting a segment should be automatically followed by its deletion in the -LS of the Data Structure

Hi, Deleting a segment must be followed automatically by a remove of it from the -LS Lines of the associated Data Sctructure, just like the creation of the segment automatically adds it to the -LS Lines of the associated Data Structure. This is wh...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration