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Prevent errors during migration to a new zWS release by allocating files via EQQPCSxx jobs to have the same sizes and other characteristics as in the previous release

Currently the provided jobs (tailored by EQQJOBS) like EQQPCS01 and EQQPCS02 allocate tiny files with default characteristics. However most customers make changes, like increasing the allocation of the files (more cylinders) or modifying the MAXRE...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

REGEX Function like in PL/I

Hi IBM, you've delivered the REGEX function in PL/I for the use of regular expressions in string searches. This would be nice in Cobol as intrinsic function too. Regards, Michael
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 12 Planned for future release

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

high availability and resiliency for messages sent via MQ descriptors (TYPE=MQSERIES)

We have got applications sending messages via CHNG/ISRT calls on MQ descriptors ( IBM MQ Parameter TYPE=MQSERIES ) Subparameter MQRTQMGR=mqmd_replytoqmgr specifies the MQMD_REPLYTOQMGR value. When operating within a PLEX-environment (MVS-Plex, ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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'...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

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