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INGALERT should default to use MVSESA if the jobname is not known to System Automation

If INGALERT code is called from the Message Automation Table, if not specified, the jobname is taken from the message's job name field. If the jobname is not known to System Automation, no alert is generated and the following message is issued: IN...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Advanced Auto-Formatting Options for COBOL Editor

We'd like to have more options to influence the syntax-formatter in COBOL editor. At the moment there are few options for intention on IF oder WHEN etc... I wish some more options: 1) Intention for WHEN relative to EVALUATE2) Intention for the tex...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

Capture the architecture of mainframe applications using REST API methods

We have an Architecture Repository to support architecture work related to the business applications. In order to get this Architecture Repository fully functioning that system must be fed with with the data that comes from the systems. Therefore ...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

FTP File Transfer via CICS Explorer

We use ftp file transfer from local pc to z/os environment in daily work and instead of using another product, we want to able to do it via CICS Explorer.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support without having application to handle the addition RFH V2 header

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support(OA62795) is rely on addition RFH V2 header. With feature enabled, either corresponding application needs to be enhanced to handle the addition header or q ueue definitions has to change to propctl=none. The requiremen...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Expose MQ API options in CICS aux trace

We constantly find ourselves trying to debug MQ related activity in CICS. Many of these issue relate to applications setting MQ options incorrectly, and this happens many times unbeknownst to them. CICS sysprogs also many time do not have access t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to Suspend a Timer Across IPLs

It would be appreciated if we can have ability to suspend a timer and keep that timer suspended across IPLs.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

NetView command to refresh RACF access privileges

We need to protect modification commands, and only grant access to them as and when required. As NetView caches the RACF access privileges, it means commands can still be used after the access is taken away. NetView needs to either use the live RA...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration