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In IMS Recovery Expert, provide estimate of time to recover

Typically when customers are faced with a situation where they may need to take an application offline and perform database recovery, they would like to have an estimate of the time it will take to recover in order to make a decision on if and whe...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Enhancement for reporting functions so that Job_History reports capture all instances of a job and not just status during the time that the old current plan is archived

The Job_History report that is part of the DWC predefined management reports should be updated so that it captures all instances of a job's history. The way this report works currently is that it only captures the status of the job during the time...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Avoid writing over unarchived JT files after message EQQN180W is issued by controller

In the subject PMR 65928,L6Q,000 (the files for which are available under internal PMR 53795,999,000 ) the JTARC filled up (B37) after which all the JT files were used but could NOT be copied to the JTARC file. This resulted in EQQZ045E for normal...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Remote Resource API fo Associate Program to a COPYBOOK

We need the ability to programmatically associate a Program to a COPYBOOK
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

controlling IPLcomplete-check after setting new Runmode

In case of maintenance we are using runmodes with reduced number of resources which are needed to maintain the systems.In this phase IPL will not complete, cause all our online-systems are down, which are defined for IPL-complete checking.Not all ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

support for IPv6 during provisioning new zos

I want to be able to provision a new zos with an IPv6 address.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

TWS job status missing when tracker is down

Problem: TWS job status might be lost when tracker is restarted. This impact production batch and business. Request: TWS should recheck all the running jobs status during tracker is down when tracker is restarted again.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance TMRA to get the name of the program performing a callout

APAR PH24630 added the IMS program name of the program performing a callout to the OTMA state header of the callout message. Please add a method to TMRA to get this information from the OTMA state header.
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

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