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TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

possibility to add a CEEOPTS prefix

Customer needs to debug a pgm and needs to have CEEOPTS prefixed(like //DB2PREFIX.CEEOPTS DD *) For the JCL generation, he right clicked the source pgm, then askedprobably generate the JCL "For compile link debug". The generation added //CEEOPTS D...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Space Abends in Sort and others

The client is looking for a solution to get rid of ALL space abends. My client is looking for a solution to get rid of x37 space abends. We have recommended regular volume additions, periodic JCL review, SORT tuning exercises etc as IBM best pract...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Multi Factor Authentication compatibility with Infoprint Central

This request is to have Infoprint Central compatible with Multi Factor Authentication. Currently, we cannot sign into Infoprint Central using multi factor authentication. According to the doc, the apache server needs 64 bit enabled and configured,...
over 5 years ago in Printsw / Infoprint Server and Transforms 4 Future consideration

support for IPv6 during provisioning new zos

I want to be able to provision a new zos with an IPv6 address.
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

TWS job status missing when tracker is down

Problem: TWS job status might be lost when tracker is restarted. This impact production batch and business. Request: TWS should recheck all the running jobs status during tracker is down when tracker is restarted again.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add F1MB statistics to ZDECB addr for specific ECB address

F1MB statistics are missing from the ZDECB display of an ECB address. These stats are available in ZDECB STATS. For example: >zdecb stats sort-f1mb DECB0014I 18.53.39 DISPLAY ECB SUMMARY ECB ADDR SSU IS PGM TRC MIN SC MILS F4K F1MB FIND FIL...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Product needs to display summary of 4HRA lpars

Customer has an agreement for MSU's for all dev/test lpars. Product needs to show a summary of the total monthly MSU's, so this can be tracked.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

INGDB2 TERM add a possibility to define a User value for the LIMIT keyword

With DB2 9.1 message DSNV514I is new. DSNV514I DISPLAY THREAD OUTPUT CONTINUED (CMDID=command_id) explaination: A -DISPLAY THREAD command output directed to an MVS console is continued. This output is linked to the group of -DISPLAY THREAD message...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration