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Newer software support releases for HATS

HATS 9.7 is currently not supported on Windows 2019, only 2016 - this is classed as end of life for Microsoft. There have also been reliability issues with the OS, so it would be better to support this on Windows 2019. Similarly, HATS has not been...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

UBS RFE for case TS004147967

Current WAPL command ADD ADID adds an occurrence in the Current Plan.In case its date/time is outside the Daily Plan window, the occurrence entry is added into the LTP.The resolution of the dependencies in WAPL is driven by the DEPRES parameter, b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE to put SPL documents on a shared and customizable directory.

As per RFE 149183 , http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=149183 , if that RFE is implemented in HACPEE, we would then need HACPEE to be able to copy or put the SPL file in a shared folder where our 3rd party SW ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE to support PDT files.

HACPEE currently provides printing support in a way that it gathers the text string from the 3270 screen, then converts it to PDF and puts it temporarily on a directory on the HACPEE server, then the user can grab that document to the workstation ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HATS Connection profiles need ability to use environment properties

A common issue for HATS is that connection properties need to be tweaked or customized to the particular environment that they are deployed to. This might be because the pooling limits differentiate in an environment, the user id's differentiate i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify trans id - test CPSM workload Routing and Separation (TRANGROUP)

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify tranid - test CPSM workload TRANGROUP Routing and Distribution. Check path from the CTG connected Target CICS to the target processing AOR (Application Owning Region).
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

support for MQ Queue Sharing goup name to APA

without this support all MQ reports in APA are empty
almost 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CTC support for pervasive encryption

With pervasive encryption a client can have z/OS encrypt/compress the VTE disk pool managed by CTC. When selected for eVaulting the VTE disk volume dataset is read using standard I/O in order to be packaged for transmission. This process decrypts/...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Global Mirror in NOK state GEO* message

GDPS does not currently create a GEO* message that can be monitored and alerted on when the Global Mirror is in a “NOK” state. When the Global Mirror replication is in a “NOK” state we would no doubt have issues with DASD replication along with ad...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Use timezone offset already in SMF 110 records for CICS components

We would like an option to use the timezone offset already in the SMF 110 records, instead of the CICS_TIMEZONES lookup table to reduce the amount of wrong data collected during a time change and eliminate the need to monitor the offsets in the lo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

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