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Command driven reload of AGM components in zCEE

Most of the zAPM functions can be manipulated dynamically. We can AGMU STOP/START the CICS component, AGMQ TERM/INIT the MQ components & F container,AGMA IVP to trigger a comms attempt to the DG from container. There does not appear to be a wa...
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
8 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

Python to support further encoding: tags beside 1047 and ISO8859-1

Currently, IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python seems to only support encoding 1047 and ISO8859-1. If we've coded: # encoding: cp1141 neither output nor error messages are shown for e.g. printed output. A simple print("Hello World") would be enough ...
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 5 Not under consideration

IMS API first approach

See https://github.com/zosconnect/sample-cics-api-first Would be great if this API first approach would not be limited to CICS, should also be possible for IMS. Eliminates the need to maintain the designer installation and learn how-to use the it....
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 22 Future consideration

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T dls xxxxxxxx.** dls will only list all VSAM datasets using the -t option, but the dls man page does not...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Populate CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST with file close time for closed files.

CPSM Local Files view always shows all zeroes for "GMT file close time" and for "Local time file was closed" for closed files. This is because CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST are always zeroes when file statistics are extracted. They ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Rearrange ACTUAL START field from panel EQQSOP2L to panel EQQSOP1L

Currently in Workload Scheduler for Z, the panel 5.2, then option 2 (Operation List). In panel EQQSOP1L, there are Jobname, Status, Input Arrival, Deadline, Latest start and Crit path fields. When pressing F11 to panel EQQSOP2L, there are addition...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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