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Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Automatic increase virtual capacity for volume Safe Guarded Copy

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume. The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However,...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Alert message when a WS has reached the max of parallels servers coded

We are often contacted to analyze why jobs have been late. We have no way to verify if the root cause is a lake of parallels servers. In case of a jobs waits for parallels servers available, it would be nice to have a message in the log, or if it'...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Create SMF79.15 records when IRLM TIMEOUT value is exceeded but before IMS LOCKTIME is

If LOCKTIME is set in the DFSVSMxx member of the IMS proclib, the creation of SMF 79.15 only occurs at the same time as a 3310 abend for environments other than IMS batch. If SMF 79.15 records are created when IRLM TIMEOUT has been exceeded regard...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 3 Future consideration

VSCode extension for z/OS Connect

VSCode seems to be becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Preparing the main z/OS Connect features from iDZ Eclipse to VSCode enables usability in the future.
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Adding SMF110 field with local time

Adding SMF110 new fields with local time for : START TIMESTAMP(TOD) STOP TIMESTAMP(TOD) for exemple START TIMESTAMP(TZ) and STOP TIMESTAMP(TZ) to have the real local time for start and end transaction, easier for analyzing performance of CICS tran...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Enabling X-command (Export and Import Applications) in advanced panels

Export and Import Applications from the dialog (1.4.3) makes it easy and fast to export applications and even to import them fastly to another system. However it is only available in the _old_ panel style. The Export and Import Applications (X-Com...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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