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SA390 Dynamic Update of CMD processing using ACF REQ=REPL for same named commands.

Enhancement to current functionality of SA's 'ACF REQ=REPL' command.Currently, if multiple CMDs are defined, all with the same name, the ACF REQ=REPL will replace all existing CMDs with the one specified in the line command. Would like to have the...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

CRTE to re-drive logon Screen

When we have SEC=YES and XTRAN=YES in CICS regions, when we jump between regions using CRTE, CICS doesn't give a logon screen but it expects us to use CESN manually and long-on. It would be helpful if CICS can drive the logon screen if it expects ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Future consideration

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Push to client support is needed for "local" z/OS project property groups

We are looking into introducing a “modern” toolchain including IDz – git – IBM DBB... and are now working with a POC.If the POC is successful it could in the future replace our existing “toolchain” that completely resides on z/OS.When we work with...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
11 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Support ability to compare a current segment layout field with a previous segment layout field.

File Manager supports creating templates that map segmented records. A segmented record is one where different portions of the record are mapped with different layouts. The template has to know how to identify which possible segment layouts apply ...
11 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Longer Message/User Data CODE 'Value Returned'

The Value Returned from Messages/User Data CODE entry is currently 30 characters. This function would have been really useful but this isn't enough characters for the data we need. Can this field be expanded. Maybe to 159 to match the User data le...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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