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Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Support for Software A.G.'s EntireX product

Extend your COBOL and Natural applications to the digital economy with APIs webMethods EntireX provides a cost-effective and efficient path for IT modernization and API enablement—whether you need to integrate mainframe assets into process applica...
about 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Add SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE to WAPL LIST GENDAYS

With WAPL, the LIST GENDAYS can be used to generate the passage dates for a RULE. Unfortunately, SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE cannot be encoded in LIST GENDAYS. So the dates determined are wrong. However, the GENDAYS for this interactive RULE does take ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Supporting Larger Screen Sizes / Logmodes for NetView / System Automation Panels e.g. INGLIST

Hello NetView / SA Team, currently we are migrating from IBM AF/Operator to NetView SA at our side. And during this migration more and more inquiries are arriving that NetView only displays 62 rows at the most panels (e. g. INGLIST, DISPINFO, and ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

SSH JAM recycle should defer shutdown to allow work/connections in progress to complete

When SSH JAM is recycled, any SFTP connections in progress are lost. Update the SSH JAM to allow connection in progress to complete.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

Option for overwriting files without confirmation when Configuring Dependency Based Build option.

Currently, if you are starting a user build from the Configure Dependency Based Build option, you have to go through several pop ups to authorize overwriting existing files.Please add an option in global preferences or in the user build configurat...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration