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Allow maintenance of SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3

The SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3 records user logon/logoff times. This table grows and grows as users are added and deleted. There is no management of the table. I would be good if either the record for a user was deleted when other tables related to a ...
about 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Value of the %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} variable

The variable %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} that is used in Event Rule Action, Generic action, timeout actions doesn't retune start time in correct format.Example: it return this value 2018-03- 01T22:00:18Z/Australia/Perth While job logs shows like...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance INGMOVE to support SYSTEM MOVE groups

Enhance INGMOVE with an option to support SYSTEM move groups. The option may be LOCAL or SYSTEM vs. a default of SYSPLEX. Using this new option would produce an alternate move panel showing a list of resources in the group with options similar to ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Use SHEMAs in TDSz SDRLDEFS members

Instead of specifying the prefix on every DB2 resource, please instead use a SET SCHEMA command in the DDL distributed with TDSz. This will allow a single ID to own all of the DB2 resources created during installation, across an enterprise. Many D...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
about 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Update the PSB/ACB in IMS Transaction Isolation tool

A PSB is created to provide access to IMS resources for an IMS program, this is a one-to-one relationship. This relationship makes it difficult if many developers works with the same data and program. If a resource is shared between applications, ...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

CDPz: One datastreamer for multiple data gatherers from different sysplexes

Today, data gatherers and data streamer are locally defined to each LPAR. If we consider that Data Gatherers ( System Data Engine and Log Forwarder ) should stay local to each LPAR, it makes sense to be able to define only one Datastreamer for mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

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