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Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GMCLEANUP should remove GM FC relationships ONLY

When performing a Region Switch the GMCLEANUP step uses in-band commands to remove the GM FC relationship. When there is more than a GM FC Flashcopy relationship(s), the non GM-FC relationships are also removed. These additional relationships (FC1...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

New version of HLASM Toolkit feature SPM macros

Hi, This RFE consists of a new version of the HLASM Toolkit Feature Structured Programming Macros. The materials include: - structured programming macro source- test example source- suggested replacement for ch 2 of "HLASM Toolkit Feature User's G...
almost 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 7 Not under consideration

Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Supporting HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Not under consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Policy system rule for address space CPU consumption

There is policy task rule for CPU time but client needs for the entire CICS address space. In a high workload environment, each individual task may consume an acceptable amount of CPU but all together, they may surpass what is considered acceptable.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support %Rx commands in Eclipse

The %Rx command which is available in ISPF is not supported in the Eclipse dialog.
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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