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Eclipse interface for Omegamon CICS and CTG

Eclipse interface to Omegamon CICS and CTG would easier to navigate the Omegamon views; within one Toolkit. The CICS; CTG; CICS Omgamon; CTG Omegamon Plugins would be in the same desktop environment.
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Client 0 Not under consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

GDPSMNT Enhancement

Enhancement to GDPSMNT
about 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

Extend "Check Topology script" to verify that a Region Swap would succeed if executed

Almost an extension of the Check Topology script, but goes further by validating that everything is available, remote lpars, Standard action settings that would be used, replication links, etc. We had a failed production region swap test (first tr...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 5 Not under consideration

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Enhance testing capability of SYSPLEX RESOURCES

We have a test environment for GDPS/Metro that is contained within one physical disk subsystem. The TEST=YES option is used in the GEOPARM to tolerate this setup. We would like this TEST=YES feature extended to accommodate the SYSPLEX RESOURCE MAN...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 11 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...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

GDPS/Metro 4.2- No need of any contextual validation? when View command used for a Script

When we select a script with view we clearly indicate that we do not intent to launch the script
over 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

VSCode extension for z/OS Connect

VSCode seems to be becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Preparing the main z/OS Connect features from iDZ Eclipse to VSCode enables usability in the future.
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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