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HSBC UK - VTP Recording and/or Replay Filter Enhancement

VTP RFE: Can VTP limit the recording to only the application-owned modules necessary for the test scope using either include or exclude filter? Then at REPLAY, VTP only executes the selected application-ownedprograms that have been recorded and it...
over 3 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Object Type - CLASS in Monitor Resources panel

It would be very useful to have an option to define Object Type - CLASS and use it when creating identical/similar monitor resources as it is with applications. Could you please update the Monitor Resources panel to have an option to choose Object...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

User Exits During DDL processing

During processing for a DEDB database member, a user exit will be needed to validate the vendor data in the catalog, and place it into an extension to Directory member. The exit should be able to add related SHISAM database(s) to the list of datab...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Vendor Data in the Directory after DDL

Extended Operands and Vendor Data are in the Directory after using the Catalog Populate Utility to populate the Catalog and Directory from ACBLIB when using IMS Managed ACBs. When building PSBs and DMBs from the Catalog for DDL and the Catalog Dir...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CTG 9.1 z/OS Put Critical Errors On z/OS SYSLOG

We would like to see critical CICS Transaction Gateway error messages displayed to the z/OS SYSLOG where they can be intercepted and acted upon by AF/Operator. The closed PMR for release 9.0 40504,L6Q,000 referenced in this RFE shows how to put al...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Secure the integrity of the installed EKMF software by encryption of the disk

Currently an attack vector might be that somebody manipulates the EKMF Java classes on disk and then waits for an operator/admin with sufficient access rights to use the workstation. The attacker might be able to extract key material by just trans...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Future consideration

Compute node HA

HA for compute node services (pcs nova, cinder, neutron etc)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

IDz - Deselection of common routines in 'Program Control Flow'

Hello In the IDz test version 14.2.3.x or 15.0.x, there are multiple flow lines represented for a common routines where ever it is referred through. As a result, program control graphical view becomes unreadable and highly clustered. It's good hav...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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