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Avoid CP EXTEND failure if LRECL of EQQTROUT is smaller than 32756

After migrating from IWSZ 9.3 to zWS 9.5 the current plan extend job (PGM=EQQDNTOP) suddenly began to fail with a message:IEC036I 002-18,IGC0005E,jjjjjjjj,DNTOP,EQQTROUT,uuuu,vvvvvv, dsname It was not clear that the problem was due to the LRECL of...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Allow High-Speed Connector to function in CRAS state or above

RTMC uses the high-speed connector to send data to the off-host Linux listener. Since RTMC is the new way to send performance data, and eventually user data, we do have a need to know what the system is doing in all states.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

DWC Event Rules Jobstream Triggering

Using DWC Event rules with FileCreate, when the user drops 3 files on the folder simultaneously, it triggers and adds 1 job stream in zOS controller but the other 2 error out in DWC with message - Error AWSZAP002E Submission of job stream "QTG1MAR...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Planned for future release

Provide Batch configuration tool

This is a request to enhance and improve CDP configuration with a batch type interface. Currently CDP provides a web-based userinterface that is provided as a plug-in to z/OSMF for administer policies. For large implementations this is cumbersome,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

CICS CM Agent Functionality

Currently the agent handles CEDA INSTALL, we would like to see it also handle CEDA DEFINE. We plan to use CM agent for our remote CICS region and having to manually NDM or xmit the CSD DEFINE commands to the remote site and then run batch job to s...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Enhance GETSYSWORD to Support USERID

Please enhance GETSYSWORD to support USERID depending on the current environment: - Under CICS, provide the ID from the user, like getting it from EXEC CICS ASSIGN USERID.- Under IMS MPP, provide the ID from the user, like reading it from the TP P...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Planned for future release

Add more screen size options to the pull-down choices.

Can we add 51x133 and 62x142 screen size options to the pull-down choices? The options available are a bit “odd” when working in certain mainframe applications, like TSO/ISPF, which outside of green-screen CICS. For examples, 27x132 gives poor hei...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HOD V14.01 Rearrainging Session Icons

Using Rational Host On-Demand V14.01 server-based configuration. The option to rearrange session icons is only available with the HTML-based configuration. Would like this option using the server-based model. It is very important to our end base u...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

More ODD dump scenarios for GDPS first time data capture

We would like GDPS/PPRC to take ODD dumps on any unplanned Hyperswap disable and any Hyperswap failure event. I believe GDPS already takes them automatically for any unplanned Hyperswap. For example, we had MONITOR 2 get read device characteristic...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

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