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Panel EQQAMTMP "not started action" cannot be used with "EVERY" repeating jobs

Jobs that are scheduled using the EVERY repeat Run-Cycle Option do not have an operation start/end time in the database entry. When the schedule is interrupted by some event and none of the jobs run for several cycles, it would be useful to have I...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improve Dataset Scanner to use SMF42 records

Today the dataset scanner uses the catalog search interface to record the encryption status of datasets. By the time we actually run the scanner, there have been many thousands of datasets that no longer reside on disk. In our shop we have many th...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Future consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Selection Panel for CALENDAR and PERIOD

IWS offers selection panels in database panel for WS, AD, OI, SPECRES, EDWA, JD, JCLVAR and RUN CYCLE. Two selection panels are missing: PERIOD and CALENDAR. In enviroments with hundreds of periods or calendars a selection menu like the other sele...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to load comma delimited (or other delimiter) files into IZPCA tables

Anyone having delimited text log data wishing to load into IZPCA custom components
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG: Provide z/TPF zMQ API that returns the associated Remote or Local zMQ Name(s) for a specified zMQ Dynamic Queue Name

1. It is necessary to be able to enquire on the z/TPF Resources used by zMQQs associated with z/TPF zEVent processing, particularly z/TPF System Work Blocks (zSWB) usage and zMQDepth. 2. For this to be done all local, remote, aliased, dynamic zMQQ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZFILE json display

As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

VTP issolated recordings for IMS/CICS

We do have both CICS and IMS. In our installation all the transactions arrive via front end channel applications (no 3270 screens/terminals), so our only way to record transactions in VTP is recording transactions coming from the channel. Besides,...
over 2 years ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Future consideration

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