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Make INGVARS values accessible from Automation Table

Similar to ATF('DSICGLOB varname'), having System Automation shared variables would be valuable when working with message automation.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Real-time audit record in CDP files EQQCDPx

During IWS BatchOps daily work, they need to perform a lot MCP activities. Especially when there is a test prior to new application release and onborad new applications/LPARs such as Hold/Release/NOP/UNNOP/other thousands of jobs in TWS applicatio...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Adopt Dataname Picture and Usage in Mainframe COBOL

It would be extremely useful, and would help to prevent logic errors, if the COBOL compiler would allow a dataname to adopt the PICTURE and USAGE from another dataname at compile time. At execution time, logic errors (and even abends) can occur in...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Relief IZWS PIF LIST Memory Storage Limitation

Our installation has written several IZWS Add-on components that extract data from the Current Plan. Some monitoring or live snapshots requests read the entire CPOP segments. Therefore, it happens, when there is more workload, that the PIF LIST is...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration