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In PL/I MPO to Java converter in J2C Add the ability to use bit values other than multiples of 8

During a POC, IBM Germany is attempting to use the PL/I MPO to Java tooling in J2C packaged with IDz but supplied by RAD. The include file has bit fields that are currently not supported. This request is to add support for bit fields other than in...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TWS not status update before Tracker start

【Environment】 z/OS 2.1TWS 9.2 5Host SYSPLEX JES-MAS Event detection using JES-EXIT Controller runs on one host Scheduled to be released to IzWSV9.5 on October 30, 2021. 【Events】During host maintenance, only the maintenance target host is stopp deg...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 6 Future consideration

Add the capability of Hydra support to CTC

There is a customer currently in the PoC process using IBM CTC and is very interested in the product but they are requiring Hydra Support.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ITOM enhancements request

We are asking the development to deploy these two functions: 1) We used to have a way of printing a report within an INDEX/VIEW in a batch job with CA-View. As far as we know, ITOM does not have this functionality. 2) When issuing the equivalent o...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve the coverage of handling OOM errors to prevent Gateway daemon to be in an inconsistent state

If a Worker or ConnectionManager thread is active at the time the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, the thread terminates but other Gateway daemon threads fails to work and not processing requests. This behavior prevents failover from occurring as t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTC inventory to cloud audit

CTC should support an audit function which can be used to identify and correct discrepancies that may result between the host based CTC inventory and the actual objects currently resident in a target cloud repository.
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IMS JDBC driver-equivalent SQL support for IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature

Currently the IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature is based on COBOL and the IMS native SQL support of IMS. This leads into many restrictions of the SQL functionality compared to what the IMS JDBC driver provides. Please enhance the IMS Administ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

TPF Client channel does not support SSL

TPF is inquiring if there is any future possibility of adding SSL to our ZMQID DEF parms for our client channels to be defined securely. We are currently in a project with z/OS MQ and concerns are being raised creating channels without TLS on the ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

NTH File usage in the TOM

One of the nice things in the Omegamon Classic monitor for DB2 is the information when the Near Term History files wrap. This indicates the frequency of their use and provides a basis to increase their size or the number of them. This is something...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 5 Future consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration