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GDPS/MGM does not handle all status combination

In a GDPS/MGM environment there are situations where the primary and secondary GM status combination is not handled properly. For example, after a hardware failure on an intermediate disk subsystem, if the B volumes are set to SIMPLEX due to a CST...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Automation of Key Management Operations

#Automation and scheduling As a key manager I need the ability to schedule or delay operations for key activation/deletion/rotation to a specific date and/or time of day. #Theme - Expiry/de-activation/deletion/rotation based on key usage pattern S...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation 1 Planned for future release

AD Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs

Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs are not resolved correctly to show COBOL/Assembler programs being called in the call chain, they just show a pointer to PEM assembler macros. This is the case with all Hogan Assembler Programs. Per ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Planned for future release

HATS User List -- User selection enhancement

We are experiencing an issue with our connect macro, our connect macro made use of a user list If by mistake any of the IDs on the user list has a typo, that connection fails to be established which in turn causes that connection to never end and ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

UBS RFE for case TS004147967

Current WAPL command ADD ADID adds an occurrence in the Current Plan.In case its date/time is outside the Daily Plan window, the occurrence entry is added into the LTP.The resolution of the dependencies in WAPL is driven by the DEPRES parameter, b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE to put SPL documents on a shared and customizable directory.

As per RFE 149183 , http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=149183 , if that RFE is implemented in HACPEE, we would then need HACPEE to be able to copy or put the SPL file in a shared folder where our 3rd party SW ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE to support PDT files.

HACPEE currently provides printing support in a way that it gathers the text string from the 3270 screen, then converts it to PDF and puts it temporarily on a directory on the HACPEE server, then the user can grab that document to the workstation ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HATS Connection profiles need ability to use environment properties

A common issue for HATS is that connection properties need to be tweaked or customized to the particular environment that they are deployed to. This might be because the pooling limits differentiate in an environment, the user id's differentiate i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

CTC support for pervasive encryption

With pervasive encryption a client can have z/OS encrypt/compress the VTE disk pool managed by CTC. When selected for eVaulting the VTE disk volume dataset is read using standard I/O in order to be packaged for transmission. This process decrypts/...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Global Mirror in NOK state GEO* message

GDPS does not currently create a GEO* message that can be monitored and alerted on when the Global Mirror is in a “NOK” state. When the Global Mirror replication is in a “NOK” state we would no doubt have issues with DASD replication along with ad...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release