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Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
7 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

IPLTYPE, set via IPLTYPE script statement, is not propagated to the KG-Sys

When setting the IPLTYPE/-MODE on the KG-Sys this is also promoted to the (LCP) R-Sys. The other way around this is not the case. So setting the IPLTYPE on the R-Sys is NOT propagated to the KG-Sys. In normal situations this is not a real issue. B...
9 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Store the active IPLType/-mode at time of LCP capture

For the IPL of our production systems we have 2 IPL-sets, the A- and B-set. Every xx weeks we apply maintenance on the inactive set and then IPL from that set. When performing an IPL of the CVE, of one of the LCP captures, we need to know what was...
9 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
2 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

IMS Online Reorg to disregard error: Number of online IMS subsystems has changed

We are looking for an option to tell IMS ORF to disregard if the number of online subsystems has changed during job execution time. We are running a 4 way data sharing environment and planning to introduce rolling IPLs in the near future. We also ...
6 months ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 1 Future consideration

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