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zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Support RMTCMD IP for the Blog, CANZLOG and labelled commands

We are trying to run our Netview RMTCMD setup with SNA being turned off and using only RMTCMD IP mode. The BLOG command is coded to use only RMTCMD SNA using the keyword LU= and not the DOMAIN= and IP= keyword that can allow the RMTCMD over IP. Th...
3 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Kafka fault tolerance , data loss and scalability improvement.

The zAPM product's Kafka configuration is currently not utilizing persistence storage and is running on a single pod. While this setup may be functional to some extent, it exposes the system to potential risks and limitations. I kindly request you...
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Option for overwriting files without confirmation when Configuring Dependency Based Build option.

Currently, if you are starting a user build from the Configure Dependency Based Build option, you have to go through several pop ups to authorize overwriting existing files.Please add an option in global preferences or in the user build configurat...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add an enhancement to support the use of same named RTEMS and HTEMS procs in Sysplex environment (shared PROCLIB)

Customer has a Sysplex environment. The same PROCLIB is shared between several z/OS systems. Customer's environment is designed to use identical STC names on all z/OS systems in the Sysplex. They need a way to use the same approach with all Omegam...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 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...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Externalise all error messages to the SYSLOG

Please add all Joblog Error messages to the SYSLOG so that it can be used to automate/trigger altering through OPS MVS. This is needed from the AGM Interceptor from zCEE and CICS, as well as the Base Component. Thank you
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend

The EQQSERVER uses storage below 16 MB. If we have a lot of jobs using EQQSERVER, we get an S878.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Onboard confluent-kafka python packages to IBM AI toolkit repository

This is an essential python package that is widely used by our clients in distributed platform, this package will provide the necessary support for our developers to interact with confluent kafka product on mainframe.
5 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration