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RDz cannot access dataset aliases with symbolic names

On our host platform symbolic names are used. We cannot access dataset aliases, which are using symbolic names. e.g.: 1. This symbolic name is set in SYS1.PARMLIB SYSDEF SYMDEF(&CICS#W4='C1#CIC52') 2. This alias is set CISD.CICS.SDFHPL1 -> ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA

We would like to give our API developers the capability to specify on OTMA timeout value and activate IMS OTMA transaction expiry. We would like the developer to be able to specify the timeout value and whether to activate transaction expiry or no...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Limit number of JES jobs displayed in RDz for performance issues

When pulling back more than 100 or so jobs by creating a JES filter, the response time can be as great as 30 minutes for 1600 jobs, in spite of no CPU constraints when viewed in RMF or BMC Mainview performance monitoring tools. There was a similar...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Delivered

Addition of an "USS Command" record and enhancements to the DBB BuildReport table

USS Command record : This new record would be used to store information about the execution of a USS command. It would be reported in the DBB BuildReport for subsequent processing (like packaging or UCD component version creation). This record wou...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

More user roles & access control: predefined roles

More user roles & access control MVP1: predefined roles
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

RoCE - macvtap KVM

RoCE (macvtap KVM)
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

SMU : Avoid error messages when nothing to display

Hello When trying to display exceptional messages and wtor , error messages EEZU012E and EEZU0301E are displayed when there is no messages from the INGMSGS output and no pending WTOR. A normal message shoudl be displayed instead on an ERROR message.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs from one single LPAR

For debug isolation Start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell IMS system from one LPAR Today we need to start both regions manually from each LPAR with different job names. We want to be able to do this from one LPAR by selecting t...
almost 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Key Mapping augmentation

Please consider allowing for mapping of PF13 - PF24 in the RCE. Today, only PF1-PF12 are able to be mapped.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Delivered

New feature to stop/cancel ongoing transfers without restarting CUZCLOUD

In current version of CTC we do not have feature to stop/cancel the ongoing Active task. We would be happy if you can implement the suggested feature.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Delivered