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INGDB2 TERM add a possibility to define a User value for the LIMIT keyword

With DB2 9.1 message DSNV514I is new. DSNV514I DISPLAY THREAD OUTPUT CONTINUED (CMDID=command_id) explaination: A -DISPLAY THREAD command output directed to an MVS console is continued. This output is linked to the group of -DISPLAY THREAD message...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide version or timestamp to validate a program

There is a need to validate that a CICS application program hasn't changed when it moves through a CD pipeline. So some sort of version or timestamp is required.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

A List Relationships panel to list resources which have a relationship defined to the selected resource.

When modifying a resource, it is sometimes necessary to identify resources which have a relationship to the resource. There is currently no easy way to determine this information. It would be useful if there was a List Resources display (in the RE...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Inbound CICS transaction tracking for SNA or IP Sockets connection

Many big bank customers in Asia Pacific have applications like core banking and credit card applications still using SNA or IP Sockets as the inbound connection to CICS transactions, they have interest on Instana's observability especially the tra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

SPUFI-like DDL interface

As discussed during IMS managed ACB meeting, we would prefer to have SPUFI-like DDL interface instead of java based SQL Batch utility.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

INGOMX SOAP fault response

Normally, when a SOAP request is sent successfully to the SOAP server, the server responds with HTTP 200, and INGOMX writes the SOAP response to console. But in case of an error, especially HTTP 500 - Internal Error, INGOMX writes only the HTTP re...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

ZMDES DISPLAY full path display needed

ZMDES DISPLAY doesn't always display the full path to files. Comments from the PMR state that file paths are longer than we can fit in the tabular display. Those get shortened. The end of the path is deemed most important, since the assumption is ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Product needs to display summary of 4HRA lpars

Customer has an agreement for MSU's for all dev/test lpars. Product needs to show a summary of the total monthly MSU's, so this can be tracked.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

DB2 backup for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service)

DB2's Cloud Storage Support The direct support for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service) is definitely a great feature from IBM introduced with v11.1, that helps particularly to write backups and read them from anywhere. However, there are still som...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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