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Enable FORCE_EOV capability

When controlling dataset allocation under DFSMS it can be beneficial to influence volume selection within eligible storage groups by disallowing the selected volume. If AAM enabled a force EOV functionality it could leverage this capability in con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

ZD&T documentation about scenario where ZD&T Agent changed after deployment

Provide documentation or technote about the scenario where the ZD&T Agent changed or no longer available after image deployment. How to upgrade existing ZD&T target image? How to replace (if possible) the ZD&T agent?
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Planned for future release

ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) to show all files located in SFTP Server

Customer would like to have the option inside of ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) via GUI to see the list of all files (volumes and dataset) located in SFTP server.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Planned for future release

RFE VPCPMON1 (LSS view): OOSTrks detail

RFE VPCPMON1 (LSS view): OOSTrks detail. The Itau bank Operation support team has a process to investigate the details every time that GDPS issues the message 'CONSISTENCY GROUP CREATION FAILED'.The Operation needs to look into GDPS VPCPMON1 panel...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) VFAFILL=NO support for TPFDF

PJ46019 provided support for VFAFILL=NO. This allowed read intensive utilities to read VFA candidate records from disk without also putting them in VFA. For read intensive utilities that are only going to read the records once, this avoided displa...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Planned for future release

HACPEE Print Session enabled by default

HACPEE 2.0 provides Printing Support feature. In order to enable it, each user needs to manually enable the checkbox in properties : Properties -> Associated Printer -> Enable Printer Session We have thousand of users and for us it is not fe...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HACPEE to permit override Printer LUname

HACPEE v2.0 permits to override the 'Display LUname' (i.e. the 'Terminal LUname') via URL, however, we also need to be able to override the 'Printer LUname' (type LU3) via URL, which currently is not supported. The current print support in HACPEE ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Support tracking of ADRXMAIA dump processing

Enable tracking and inventory for backups taken by ADRXMAIA. This is a ADRDSSU alternative which allows for a temporary data set name to be used when restoring and backing up a dataset. The final inventory should at a minimum reflect the final tar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Planned for future release

Enhance HOD/HACP EE to provide hooks into custom JavaScript functions

Enhance the 3270 emulator capability of HOD/HACP EE to provide an optional client side "hook" that can trigger a customer written JavaScript function when the emulator's end-user presses a function key (e.g. F8/PF8). The custom Javascript function...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Allow for SFTP and Tectia server

Tectia Server in IBM Z/OS use file transfer to MVS dataset (FTADV – File Transfer Advice String) using SFTP protocol in the Mainframe. HOD Dev team investigated the code including on the mainframe end. After discussion with the Development manager...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release