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EQQAUDIT should include records if operation is manually hold

Manually HOLD option or NOP'ed are not logged properly or displayed correctly in the EQQAUDIT report IF change has been done by modify of the operation using 5.3 (M.3). Same issue if operation is updated using 5.2 and modify of the application is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

AD usage

Application Discovery should have a capability to track the usage of the AD product. It should be possible to:* measure number of connects to the AD services (to be able to measure # users)- what functions used in AD (graphs,reports,usage)- # inte...

SMU - add INGRUN function

The INGRUN function should be part of SMU, so that the different RUNMODES can be selected.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Issue message when DB2 Cancel Thread done,

Issue Message when DB2 CANCEL Thread issued when Task Purged. along the lines of DFHAP1900 when a SET TASK, with an indication that a DB2 CANCEL was also done.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Message IGYPG3192-E should be issued when Reference Modification with Inline Calculation is performed

When performing a MOVE operation with Reference Modification that uses Inline Calculation, if possible the compiler should detect if it will go beyond the rightmost character of the target variable and if so error message IGYPG3192-E should be iss...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Limit 110 Subtype 2 to active resources only

Reduce the number of CICS SMF 110 subtype 2 records generated by eliminating those records with 0 use counts. This might require two types of stats intervals - one being a delta interval and another being a full interval. The full interval would b...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS message for TCP/IP connection failure during startup

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This issues message DFHSO1001 with code 0CA8 (NMI INQUIRE failed) as well as a CICS dump. From Knowled...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance zOS Connect to Refresh by service name

Currently zOS Connect refreshes all sar, aar, ara file types for an entire directory instance. This is a request to enhance ZSCONCMD to refresh by specific service names.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Automatically Determine Host User ID When Connecting to a Remote System via Certificate Authentication

In z/OS Explorer, all Remote System connection types (FTP, SSH, z/OS, etc.) are by default set to the user ID of the workstation that the client is installed on. To change the Default ID for various connections a user can navigate to Windows/Prefe...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered