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Add collection of SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.

Define a new table that will maintain SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Product name change.

This product name is too confusing. Clients are confusing it with Watsonx Code Assistant for z. Perhaps another name like Watsonx Concierge for z, Watsonx Curator for Z. I've seen marketing email that even confuses the two products, and refers to ...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable automatic "PU config on" by GDPS when CBU is active at IPL

Any z/OS system that is IPLed after the CBU, CPE, BOOST, or OOCoD activate will automatically have the PUs configured online during GDPS initialization in that system. This is not always a wanted configuration. For example, when Dev/Test system ar...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

Increase the size of the Escalation Database to allow for more events to be stored.

The Escalation database has a maximum limit of records it can hold. (2200 events maximum). One the limit is reached, there is a warning messaged logged indicating the maximum number of events was exceeded. This message is written at program startu...

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances

Provide License Strategy during installation for Value Unit Licensing (Host Based Licensing)

During installation of IDz the product defaults to using the Trial License and then allows for the setting of various license types. There is currently no setting for Value Unit Licensing (host based licensing) and if the trial license in effect f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Make name of DLL generated for COBOL-Java ILC variable

Fixed prefix LIB might not fit to naming conventions
about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

Add support for Passticket validation for Supersession VTAM Generic Resource

When we attempt to use IBM PCOM ELF to logon to our Supersession VTAM Generic Resource we get error message ‘KLKNA 103 CREDENTIAL NOT AUTHORIZED’. The issue has been documented in IBM case TS017250392. IBM has stated that the reason that the above...
about 1 month ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

IBM Z Open Automation Utilities should eliminate dependencies on SSVIVERS returned by SSI 54.

SSVIVERS has been a highly-volatile field over the years for both JESes. Historically, these values have been: JES2 Value JES3 Value OS Release'SP v.r.m' 'SP v.r.m' MVS/SP'OS v.r.m' 'OS v.r.m' OS/390 V1.1 through V2.9'OS 2.10 ' 'OS 2.10 ' OS/390 V...
almost 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration