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FTP File Transfer via CICS Explorer

We use ftp file transfer from local pc to z/os environment in daily work and instead of using another product, we want to able to do it via CICS Explorer.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to Suspend a Timer Across IPLs

It would be appreciated if we can have ability to suspend a timer and keep that timer suspended across IPLs.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

NetView command to refresh RACF access privileges

We need to protect modification commands, and only grant access to them as and when required. As NetView caches the RACF access privileges, it means commands can still be used after the access is taken away. NetView needs to either use the live RA...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

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