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Need Remote Connection Emulator to support interface that is displayed in unformatted mode.

The IDz v16 documentation indicates the following limitation for the Remote Connection Emulator: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=eclipse-connecting-zos-by-using-remote-connection-emulator#intro__limitations Remote Connecti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 5 Future consideration

Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Modify command to display parms of running controller

Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need CDPz integration to support TWSplex with standby controller

Dear support, We Morgan Stanley mainframe team would like to adopt CDPz integration to collect real-time messages to analyze. In our environment we installed TWS as plex with both primary controller and standby controller. Currently we enabled CDP...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide an LCP volume validation health check to ensure all required volumes are replicated to the vault

In, for example an MM2 site with LCP configuration, it is entirely possible that when new disks are cut, they are added to the MM config and GDPS but may be missed from the LCP configuration side meaning that they are never captured in the vault. ...
about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support $ as first Charakter for variables when using WAPL

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/z-workload-scheduler-101-extends-orchestration-capabilities-managed-file-transfer-enhances-operational-experience-ai-streamlines-workflows-definition-renewed-workload-designer?region=US ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

VSAM dataset & logstream ID report

Using D LOGGER, we can get the logstreams defined on the system, but to get information about which VSAM dataset is defined with a logstream ID, there is no such reporting. To get this info, only option is to IDCAMS LISTCAT and get the logstream I...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 1 Future consideration

CTG Transaction Analysis CTG Explorer View

CICS Transaction Gateway Transaction Analysis; similar to Omegamon CTG Transaction Analysis view. This would show the Program; Tranid; target CICS Server, other; similar to Omegamon. See attached screenshot. Save last N last task flows, in a stora...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Future consideration

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