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Store the active IPLType/-mode at time of LCP capture

For the IPL of our production systems we have 2 IPL-sets, the A- and B-set. Every xx weeks we apply maintenance on the inactive set and then IPL from that set. When performing an IPL of the CVE, of one of the LCP captures, we need to know what was...
9 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IBM Knowledge Catalog is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Ability to leverage the qos of the mainframe to find, understand, curate and access data.
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Match 360 is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Able to provide 360 view of clients a cloud native environment in Open Shift on Linux on z
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support for Watson Query on Linux on z

Data virtualization (Watson query) is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

IM Change Detection ability to compare using subset of time frame.

We have Near Real Time (NRT) environment where we process the data every day from 8 am - 9am, 9 am - 12pm and 2pm - 3 pm SMF time frame. We want ability to select custom time range and use same time range for comparison for every reference period ...
14 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable Application Performance Analyzer in VS Code

Provide VS Code extension for Application Performance Analyzer
15 days ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
2 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

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