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Document changes even in security PTFs

When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Need an ability to dynamically modify metadata for conversational search

Currently the metadata for conversational search configuration is done on an assistant level and it is static. We are working on a Client Engineering pilot where there is a requirement to support multiple versions of documentation. For example, DB...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

Like DB2 "asynchronous CF duplexing", do you have any plan to implement similar functionality on IMS for IMS locking and VSAM RLS locking. Synchronized duplexing is too expensive in terms of CPU consumption.
8 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow passing a Volume with the Move and Copy utilities to use on uncatalogged datasets

During our DR customization, we load our DASD to a floor system to make changes prior to IPL, for example changing Profile parms for TCPIP so we come up with DR IP addresses, or pointing to a DR DNS (with a TCPDATA move) or IPLing with a different...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Table or file to add user AD groups for workspace access

We have large number of ADDI projects. We setup security of each project manually. As per current procedure we have to first add AD group under Admin portal -> configure -> user groups and then need to map that group with project ADDI worksp...
27 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Provide the possibility of having a consistent copy in Region A when we are in a Region Switch situation (Production in REGion B) in the GDPS MGM3SITE solution.

It is very dangerous to propose a Region Switch in MGM3SITE, since in that situation we will not have a consistent copy in Region A (copy between Region b and A in Global Copy format). In this situation if we have a problem in Region B, the data i...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

TESTing INGAMS refresh processing

It would be really helpful to have a way to TEST the INGAMS REFRESH processing without actually performing the policy refresh, after a policy build has been completed. It will help prevent surprises during change window when we perform the actual ...
12 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox.

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox and would liek have a fix ASAP in next 17.x version. This is really leading to some confusion during ...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Is a defect

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