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Add ability to post notices on web UI

It would be helpful if our support team could post notices on the web UI to inform users of important information. These would be informational messages and Not prevent use of the UI. Examples: Upcoming planned maintenance Failed to load usage dat...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Use Flash Express as swap storage for VM Guests

The Linux (compute) LPAR can access to Flash Express Storage. Could be very useful in terms of performance to use this storage as provider for vm's swap disks.The swap disk is generally included into ICIC flavors, very interesting if it can be dep...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Reduce vulnerabilities within the the Workload Scheduler / z Workload Scheduler tools by using industry standard password encryption

There is a risk that exploitation of non industry standard password encryption vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. For example the Windows Agent users password encryption ado...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

JES2 Release Command (Case TS013137673)

As suggested on case TS013137673 I'm opening this idea. I'm reporting here JES team recommendations: 1. Use of ENF signals for determine job status prior to asking for release 2. Retry the release if job status temporarily does not allow the relea...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need explicit Resp information in CICS Application Events

When creating a CICS application event, the user cannot specify a filter using the Response code, only on OK or NOT OK. When this is coupled with not being able to include the response codes in the emitted data (that I can find) I cannot drive act...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

ProcOps: define more than one target hardware per z/OS system

Enhance ProcOps so that it can handle multiple definitions for z/OS Systems residing in differently named HW Slots on different CPUs.By now we have a homegrown application that is leveraging ProcOps functionality to deal with HW Automation. To be ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality for SA's E2E automation

Enhance functionality of SA's E2E Automation so that the E2E Manager knows about requests of a local Automation Manager and thus is enabled to show correct Status of a referenced resource.The REF-resource's Status on the E2E Manager System should ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

To support variable length string json payload for IMS API

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Include End Job Timestamp in Archive Job List

Add "Job Execution End Timestamp" on "IBM Tivoli Output Manager - Archived Sysouts" panel
almost 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration