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System Automation possibility to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF

During the planned IPL of one of the Lpars in our enterprise (18 Lpars), the gateways to/from this Lpar to all the other Lpars are disconnected (of course). This results in a red message on the gateway panel on all the other lpars.Especially when ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Requesting for 64bit version of the C++ Zap

We're using Hourglass V7.1 on Z/OS 2.3The application programmers have introduced a new version of an existing legacy program. The new code is not picking up hourglass date. The only difference between the batch jobs is the application program. Th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

INGDYN CREATE option to force the usage of the latested templated

We need an force option for the INGDYN CREATE function so that the latest template will be used to create the resource.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

GatewayConnection Async support

We would like to have async version for gateway.Flow(eciReq) method in order not to block the current thread while waiting response from Mainframe.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

EXEC CICS WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER unimplemented

We need to use these CICS documented command:EXEC CICSWEB WRITEHTTPHEADER()NAMELENGTH()SESSTOKEN()VALUE()VALUELENGTH()END-EXEC
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Creation of a data set growth metric suitable for identifying abnormal data set level growth.

Customer's are often challenged with identifying culprit data sets and applications when storage group growth exceeds expectations. Often subject storage groups can be several TB's large and identifying excessive growth at the dataset level cannot...
almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Client 0 Future consideration

Query zD&T License Count

A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table

Request is to update ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table when the LOCAL parameter is not supplied (replacing current process of using the default local IP address).
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
about 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

PDU Enhancements - Add pool type along with time and processor parameters

We see this previously requested and declined as 44798. We would like to re-request as a result of an incident in PSS on 10/14/2021. • PDU Create Exclude process should be able support the NOSWITCH logic. This would enable the user to execute ZRPD...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration