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Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...

Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
15 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

Add High Water Mark indicator of a Storage Group or a Volume in ZPCA tables

High Water Mark indicator will be useful for our stockage team to find out if a Storage Group or a Volume is big enough.
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Version Output for Python to Include APAR/PTF Level

To assist in bridging the gap between non-z/OS maintenance methods and traditionally understood z/OS maintenance methods, having the PTF level of the build would be helpful in the `python3 -VV` output. As it stands, IBM's communication is strictly...

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Capture File Modification Metadata on PDS Members when Performing DBB Builds

Currently, file metadata such as the created/modified date and time stamps are not being captured on PDS members when performing a DBB Build. The file modification history is blank after new or changed files have been delivered to z/OS. We would l...
16 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

Improved security

Any one that has implemented security doesn't run STC with uid 0. Omegamon should not try to open security holes for exploit
17 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Under review