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Add built-in support for linked-list (singly, doubly, circular, doubly-circular)

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following types: - Singly linked lists. - Doubly linked lists. - Ci...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Remove the requirement of Db2 SYSADM authority to access the IZPCA panels to perform specific functions.

DB2 SYSADM is the highest level of administrative authority at a DB2 subsystem level. Users with SYSADM authority can run some utilities and issue some database and database manager commands within the instance. A user with SYSADM authority can gr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Prepare the product using z/OSMF for Software Management

Software management by z/OSMF would make new function, Installation, FIXes, and APARs handling easier.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add Job Confirmation Option to Error Panel

We would like to have the capability in the error panel (HANDLING OPERATIONS ENDED IN ERROR) to have user preference option for job confirmation. This would act like application confirmation today (type Y to confirm you want the application force ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Allow system shutdown phases in z/OS Proxy-managed systems

For GDPS managed systems, SA z/OS provides three distinct phases in the final shutdown processing that are defined using the special message id SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN message/user data policy item for the MVS Component entry type. This is not supported o...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
10 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
10 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

Support of the CTG Multiplaform to CICS

For zAPM Connect to track transactions on zSystems, customers infrastructure needs to be compliant with supported components of the solution. To call CICS, several options are supported including the CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) on z/OS. My cust...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

Allow applid and resource filtering against CICS PA HDBs

Currently the filtering capability against HDBs (both performance, stats and alerts) is in adequate. The first improvement can be made by allowing applid filtering against HDBs from ISPF option '6 - Statistics' . Then there are inconsistencies whe...
11 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

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