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MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Enhancements on CA7 functions

CA7 Job Triggering Flow gives a complete flow of a selected job. However, that's too much results returned. The CA7 jobs I provided it's for a small AD project and we have many projects that are larger. It's very hard to find a selected job on the...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

zSort Support for zWS

Allow usage of the hardware accelerated approach to sorting by z/OS Workload Scheduler (zWS) to take advantage of the IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort. The aim will be to reduce the CPU costs and improve the elapsed time for eligible batch wo...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

GDPS Metro Enhancement

Hyperswap script execution failed because of active CC sessions.
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

Support multiple callouts in the same interaction when using IMS Transaction Orchestration

IMS Transaction Orchestration enable IMS transactions to make callouts asynchronously while the original IMS client is kept waiting. But only one callout can be made in one interaction. We use IMS Transaction Orchestration to enable IMS applicatio...
about 2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

Add the support for UNIX Product Suites

It's useful because the Customer have some software with USS component and the Product don't perform correctly all the components
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration