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Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Customize colums in HILM report outputs according to DSGVO

We've got requirement because of DSGVO we are not allowed to show Systemuser Field in generated reports.So we would need the following extensions: * Administrators can customize which fields are available for non administrative users that can view...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

registry entry LastExitViewFromINI customizable during installation

it would be very helpful for us, when we could decide wether registry entry LastExitViewFromINI is set to T or F during installation since there are different scenarios on our site for the usage of pcom. scenario 1: installation on personalized wo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE support for Thai codepage.

Due to JAVA applet and webstart will deprecate in JDK9. Customer want to change from HOD to HACP EE. But current HACP EE not support Thai codepage. Please consider to add support for Thai code page (838).
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

CPBPLIM should not be allowed to exceed 50% and ALL DEPS nesting level default should be less than 99

The CPBPLIM parameter can have values up to 99 which means 99% of memory is reserved for current plan buffers and 1% is available for everything else. This leads to memory related abends such as S878. Similarly the "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" in panel EQ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

Provide compatibility between DB2 v13 and CICS Interdependency Analyzer

We are upgrading to DB2 v13 and were informed that CICS IA is not compatible with this new version - we learned this via our IBM ticket TS013775865. They suggested that we submit an RFE if we would like this to be enhanced to support DB2 v13. We w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Need ability to migrate to new DASD under GDPS in MGM environment

Need ability to migrate to new hardware while keeping existing MGM DR and availability positions intact.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Planned for future release