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over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Refresh projects during Eclipse authentication

When authenticating on Eclipse, the list of projects should refresh automatically, without having to right click on the Explorer window.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility

At the moment, the CreatePasswordFile utility requires an interactive console which prompts the user for the password. This idea is about to extend the CreatePasswordFile util and supply a batch mode: The user supplies both the password file locat...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Supporting HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF
12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Support for TRS-Files and XMIT in FileManager

FileManager should support datasets like TRS-packed files,(used AMATERSE or TRSMAIN).The Suffix (sorry for windows-like wording) .TRS should be an Indicator to present a "look-into" and/or the ability to unpack it.Also a packing-ability should be ...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic close/open of MRO connections

If an MRO connection needs to be altered (e.g. change number of sessions) it is not possible to close and re-install the connection without stopping IRC. This is an unacceptable situation in a 24 x 7 production environment. MRO connections must be...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

GDPS/PPRC management of an additional PPRC-XD relation off the secondary FC target.

We would like to manage with GDPS a PPRC-XD relation starting from the secondary FC target of the production sysplex to our pre-production sysplex disks.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration