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BCPii enhancement for fake connection detection

Customer upgraded host CZ01 from z13 to z15. After that, They could not use GDPS to load system or deactivate/activate LPARs in CZ01. System admin checked and found BCPii status was connected,GDPS debug was ‘ON’. And he started SA BCPii trace. It ...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Simplify verification of occurence/operation status after performing a CP REFRESH (dialog option 9.5) by having an available copy of the pre-refresh files on a separate controller

Currently it is very difficult to get all the occurrences and operations in the current plan (CP) into the correct status after it is necessary to perform a REFRESH of the long term plan (which deletes the current plan). In fact it is so difficult...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Further methods in generated classes

I was building a proof of concept system for an internal project using JZOS Record Generator, and ended up writing a few static helper functions that it would be nice to have inside the class, namely a constructor from String and an equals method....
over 1 year ago in Record Generator for Java 1 Future consideration

Allow current plan to be automatically rebuilt with correct status information after a refresh of the plan (dialog option 9.5)

Currently it is possible to recreate the current plan from the long term plan after a CP refresh, with loss of all status information. However many customers add most of their worklad dynamically, and dynamically added occurrences are not handled ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Completing occurrences via batch (WAPL, BCIT, etc ) should not delete predecessors without a warning or a special parameter to indicate that it is OK to delete predecessors

If occurrences are set complete via the ISPF dialog or from the DWC, there is a warning given if there are predecessors which are not completed. When doing the same thing via batch, the predecessors are just deleted which can make the current plan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Workload Scheduler : Save JCL after execution to rerun at a later time

Archiving JS Files to offer the possibility to add an application at the current plan using the JCL used for the same application at an earlier date and with an IATIME that may be different. This function is actually done by a user developpment we...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Menu Manager Connection filters for action

I have a RDz connected to three different mainframes and i need to configure Menu Manager action for each mainframe. The action is different for each mainframe. Currently the RDz support filters only for Data Set Filters. I need actions to be asso...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

reevalute system for APGs with "prepare move" and same preference values

Our company is using z System Automation to run the z environment.If you are using the availability feature "Prepare Move" and have same preference values defined you may consider application outages until the operator detects that situation and i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

z/VM support for EMC Cinder Driver for SCSI LUNs

A customer wants to have IBM Cloud Orchestrator create/manage SCSI LUNs for z/VM Linux using EMC DASD. Currently it's not supported(certified) to use EMC DASD for ICO - only IBM DASD/SVC for FCP/SCSI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 5 Future consideration

Collector Behavior with Partitioned Tables

Add an option to have the collector issue the following for each partitioned table before insert/update begins for that table in a commit cycle: LOCK TABLE <name> PART <#> IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; This will eliminate the need for escalation ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration