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Integration z/OSMF – System Automation: Registered provisioned instances to System Automation

We are currently making the first steps in automating the provisioning of z/OS middleware such as Broker, MQ, CICS, DB2. As part of the provisioning we would like to be able to register provisioned middleware instances (started tasks, subsystems) ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we ca...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Enhance Long Duration Alert Message Information for Usability

The Long Duration alert message should be enhanced to provide additional information that will assist in quicker assessment and analysis. Additional information requested to add to the message:* Run Cycle * Job start time* Jobs estimated duration*...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

GDPS - Improve Master-Switch

The master function of a GDPS/PPRC K-System was not moved.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
10 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Accurately normalize CPUsec reporting in the RAF component

CPUsec reporting in the Resource Accounting Feature does not differentiate between GCP and zIIP processors. For customers that run zIIP processors in their environment, RAF records CPUsec equally, regardless of processor type, and RAF only applies...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance SSL diagnosis

Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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