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the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

See only Sessions from Users under Admin

We use the dynamic Appllist in the most of our susersessions.Then today, if a Admin-user will select the sessions under ADMIN in the Supersession from an other user, he will see all his sessions. But he need only see the sessions, witch the user h...
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 5 Future consideration

Extend the Application Class concept to other applicable resource types, such as Application Groups and Monitor Resources.

Q. Why is it useful? A. Reduces time and effort fulfilling "customer" (e.g. Support and Operation staff) requests. Q. Who would benefit from it? A. Both automation administrators and their customers: Administrators benefit by quickly inheriting pr...
7 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enabling GENDAYS in EQQAMRPL (AD - Run-Panel)

Since GENDAYS is very helpful for simulating runcycle groups and rules to verify the definitions, it should able to use it in EQQAMRPL (AD - Run-Panel). Since the command GENDAYS can already be used in the database to verify runcycle groups, it se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Open Automation Utilities should eliminate dependencies on SSVIVERS returned by SSI 54.

SSVIVERS has been a highly-volatile field over the years for both JESes. Historically, these values have been: JES2 Value JES3 Value OS Release'SP v.r.m' 'SP v.r.m' MVS/SP'OS v.r.m' 'OS v.r.m' OS/390 V1.1 through V2.9'OS 2.10 ' 'OS 2.10 ' OS/390 V...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

source control enablement

Enable source control integration for applinx applications and/or repository. The ability to only export and import the entire repository and the lack of exporting only differences without manually exporting (specific entities) from the Designer l...
about 1 month ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

Provide option to apply GKB updates outside of SMP/E if that is the customer preference

Previously, monthly GKB updates were provided by a file which could be uploaded to reflect updated/changed products. However this was recently changed to enforce the use of SMP/E to apply GKB updates. This does not work in our shop for the followi...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Future consideration

Add timeout for active and parked debug sessions in IBM Z Open Debug in VS Code

It is common that developers leave active debug sessions open, leaving for lunch or afternoon tea. Even more common that multiple sessions are parked without ever being connected to. It would be VERY helpful if these sessions could timeout. We wou...
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Incrementally restore a subset of SGC volumes

PH44217 introduced incremental restore capability to Production but is currently an "all or none" approach. We believe there may be scenarios where specific volumes or applications might be affected by corruption and so we would like to have a sim...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

Automatic increase virtual capacity for volume Safe Guarded Copy

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume. The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However,...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

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