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Panel EQQMMADP should have the same behaviour in filter capabilities as panel EQQMOCCP

If I want to create dependencies via Panel EQQMMADP in the current plan I get back a list with much to much results. In CPs with huge workload this can make EQQMMADP unuseable (several hundreds or thousands of applications in the list) Why EQQMMAD...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Grouping of AD projects as a quick start / filter

With a grouping of certain AD projects to a topic / filter, a quick access can be made for different analyzes on recurring AD projects. The grouping based on a filter criterion (name) provides an improved overview in the Explore View, especially f...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Debugger Profile Service (EQAPROF) to implement sysplex awareness

We only want to use a VIPA for the communication between IDz and the mainframe. With IBM z/OS Debugger version 16.0.1 IBM added sysplex-awareness, so now the last missing part that is not sysplex-aware is the EQAPROF. So please add this support.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

zCentric job delays due to

We are looking for an EASIER way (either through EQQAUDIT report, or WAPL or RESTAPI even) of determining when a zcentric job is delayed due to parallel server limitation being exceeded (AND what the limit was set to as users can change the limit ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Protect TWS Subresources for ETT, JV, RD and SR with authority group id

Implement the field authority group id for TWS objects ETT, RD, JV and SR and protect the access to the objects via new RACF subresources(the same way as applications with subresource AD.GROUP)
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dependency scanner to use CSECT in BZUCFG to support when moduler-under-test is different from loadmodulename

If you perform zUnit testing on a program which is located in a load module which has a different name than the program name then DBB reads he BZUCFG incorrectly. The situation happens when testing statically called programs, or when the main prog...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Add the support for DBCS on SMU

Our customer is using System Automation SDF(NetView NCCF) to display the important message which includes DBCS characters.Messages in DBCS are required to display on SMU monitoring panel after migrating SDF to Service Management Unite.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

GMTRAN DISCONNECT Option Expansion

When using the default CICS signon program, a user is able to clear the screen using ESC and run transactions under the default CICS user ID. Using End/PF3 terminates the session, but clearing the screen using the ESC key does not. We would like t...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Support mixed case in configuration field „Startup Parameters“

Today data entered in the field “Startup Parameters” will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this configuration field.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration