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User & Admin groups update into ADI via dashboard

Every week we create several new user groups for each ADDI projects we onboard. Currently we have to manually add user and admin groups by updating teamserver file and restarting ADI server. Due to GIS issues we want to refrain from this manual wo...

LPEX JCL editor needs to have the same syntax support as JCL editor

LPEX JCL editor currently does not support JCL statements such as EXPORT and related keywords.IDz LPEX JCL editor does not recognize EXPORT statement and related keywords such as SYMBOLS etc.When JCL is coded with EXPORT statement, error - Incorre...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name Currently, it only allow operation number to be search which is really impractical.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Plug-in integration with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

CICS PA allows you to store data in DB2 tables. CICS PA Plug in can then query such data from the Explorer. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator is the IBM strategic appliance for data intensive DB2 queries. Lack of integration of CICS PA Plugin with IBM...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS. Currently, the job log only show what's in JES job log which required extra step to do command 'J' in IzWS to see JCL Directive of the Fetch Member. 'J' c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Balancing workloads for machines with a different physical capabilities

In our situation, we have two production LPARs, each one is on a different MF. Each TOR dynamically routes all transactions to all AORs (on both LPARs) We would really like to be able to control the workload distribution between the LPARs. Since t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

PWFI to be kept in the program is the same

A PWFI region is waiting for a new message for the transaction ONE. Actually, when another transaction code (TWO) needs the region, ONE receive the Status code QC, all the environment is offloaded. The environment of TWO is load. If TWO is associa...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Bug fix for hanging sessions

Design change is needed to fix error (see PMR 69599 for details)
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration