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GDPS CA: GDPS ROUTING SCRIPT can end timely and do not wait for the end of workload monitoring

During workload switch with GDPS ROUTING script, customer found that ROUTING script did not end as soon as the switch was completed. Customer opened the case and was reply that 'After the workload switch completion as shown in message GEO4560I, th...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a ways to see both control and location information for RSH buffers

PJ45598 provided support for recoverable system heap. The support allows for a request for recoverable system heap to be serviced from 64 bit system heap if there isn't enough room in the preallocated RSH area. ZDSHP FIND displays information abou...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

The C++ interface for demangling new cxxabi names(generated by xlclang 16.1) are not implemented.

The C++ interface for demangling new cxxabi names(generated by xlclang 16.1) are not implemented. The C++ interface could only demangle old C++ names generated by xlC.
almost 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 1 Future consideration

LONG RUNNING ENQUEUE AUTOMATION

When long running enqueue automation is enable an optional alert can be specified should an enqueue be detected. AOF950I JOB jobname ON sysname HOLDS AN ENQ FOR nnn SECONDS ON RESOURCE source There is no clearing alert being issued when the enqueu...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger - How to know which register is allocated to variable

Customer is using Assembler language.To debug this Assembler, they are using "IBM z/OS Debugger" under 3270 interface. As a nature of Assembler, variable is often allocated to a certain Register.Hence, while turning on Monitoring the variable, cus...
almost 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TWS not status update before Tracker start

【Environment】z/OS 2.1 TWS 9.2５Host　SYSPLEXJES-MASEvent detection using JES-EXITController runs on one host 【Events】During host maintenance, only the maintenance target host is stopped, and operation is continued in a degraded state.When starting a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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