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A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
20 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain all situation statuses with historical data with a single query

Currently, the Rest API is not capable of bringing all historical data for all situations. Rest API can bring historical data to only one situation at a time by adding expand=true parameter. A suggestion would be to get all situation statuses with...
5 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide Detailed Instructions on Cloning an SMU Server from a Container to a new Container/Server for High Availability

IBM currently provides an option to install/manage/run SMU using a Red Hat (Podman)/Linux (Docker) container. It would be very useful for clients to have detailed instructions on how to make a copy of an existing SMU container to create a high ava...
15 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
14 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

Enable RACF passticket support for users creating API’s in Design Center to make calls to IMS.

Currently we are leveraging RACF Passticket support for many things within zCEE and it would be beneficial to have this capability for users who are creating API's in Design Center to make calls to IMS
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Allow Default 'My Datasets' filter to be customised

In remote systems explorer there is a default MVS Files filter - 'My Data Sets' - that is hardcoded as '<User ID>.*', and this cannot be changed. In our organisation that the standard HLQ for user datasets and so we need the ability to custo...
11 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

z/OS Connect does not currently have a way to retrieve a list of the API requesters deployed in a server configured with OpenAPI3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides functionality to list APIs, but it lacks a feature for listing API Requesters deployed on a z/OS Connect EE Server configured with OpenAPI 3. In contrast, with OpenAPI 2, API Requesters can be listed by sending ...
14 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Please provide means for CSQLIGHT/DRLSLOGP to enrich log with SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID and even IMS_CTRL_REGION

The COLLECT CSQ for IMS depends on the IMS_SYSTEM_NAMES lookup table. However, any shop having the same IMS_SYSTEM_IDs on all their SYSPLEX environments (PROD/QUAL/DEV) have to manually set the SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID, IMS_CTRL_REGION making i...
4 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

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