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IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

How to estimate the size of these pools in a mACB environment where there's no ACBLIB, DBDLIB nor PSBLIB.

Problem Description: In an ACBLIB environment, ACBGEN output shows the estimated size of DMB, PSB, PSBW, and EPCB pools indicated by DFS0940I, DFS0941I, DFS0943I and DFS0589I. messages like as follows. < ACBGEN output example > ... DFS0940I ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Planned for future release

Job Log Monitoring Multi-line message support

The job log monitoring feature (INGJLM) currently supports only single line messages, meaning that only the first line of a mult-line message will be returned. All lines of a multi-line message should be returned as they are part of the same message.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under 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

Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
10 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Please add a digital signature for program bundled with IDz \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe

Currently there is no digital signature when viewing the properties of the file \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe in Windows. Setting a digital signature on \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe indicates that the program has been created by IBM and has not been tampered with.
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

Add SQL builder in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support some of our developers are missing the possibility to graphicly build SQL query with SQL Query Builder, if possible bring this functionality into IDz 16 SQL editor.
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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