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Initialize Cobol Language Environment

The product provides the capability to be customized with user exits. Since programming user exits with cobol is not a question of performance any more, they get rewriten from assembler programming language to cobol. Today, it is mandatory to crea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Retrofit Maven-Plugin for CICS/TS 5.5

Please retrofit Maven Plug-In to CICS/TS 5.5, because we have 2 customers, who need that and have installed CICS/TS 5.5.A migration to 5.6 will be time consuming and is not planned for this year
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

lengthen the USRPSW field

For security purposes, password requirements have become more stringent. A requirement for a password longer than 31 characters would not be out of the question. For these reasons I believe the 'USRPSW' field in the 'USRREC' parm should be made to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Users want to know when they need to rebind their IBM File Manager for z/OS packages

[Current Product & Version]-IBM File Manager for z/OS V15 -z/OS V2.5-Db2 12 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is planning to upgrade Db2 for z/OS and IBM File Manager for z/OS. PLAN(yyyy/...
5 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Exclusively run the Hyperswap 'Phase 1 check', via a Planned/unplanned Hyperswap script.

We would be interested in having a tool (SCRIPT,...) that could be executed before running a Planned/Unplanned HS simulation, and certify whether we are (or not) prepared to be able to perform an HS without causing, for example, the fall of a syst...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration