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Suspend file and Configuration refresh aborted

With SA 4.1 and the use of a suspend file, a configuration refresh may be aborted or rejected because errors related to the suspend file. The error messages may be issued in the syslog of a remote system and the issuer of the command is not inform...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

AT-TLS SUPPORT FOR TWS FOR Z/OS

AT-TLS is not yet declared as supported for IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS.This support is required.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Optimized LUW_DB2 database query

Currently we create LUW Db2 database manually and then attached that database when we create new project in build client. We do this to create optimized DB2 database by using tweaked create database query. We want to avoid this manual DB2 create s...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Missing actual Build date and time in DBB Build report

After the DBB User build / Pipeline build (impact build), DBB will generate a “Build Report” and showing DBB toolkit version details on the top of the report, which is not much relevant to developers. Instead that information, developer wanted the...
9 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Permit SAF keyrings to be used instead of jks files for host connection.

Currently HATS requires a jks files to be used if the host connection is secure. When the HATS application is deployed on z/OS in WAS the SAF keyrings should be used either as a default or a method to switch when deploying. This is required due to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC.

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC instead of users having to download their print jobs each time
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) need to support local Windows Printer option like Host On-Demand (HOD)

RAI users need to be able to print in Windows Printer option
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

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