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Request a C/C++ interface for IBM VSAM macros used in TPF

Currently only assembler programs can issue the VSAM macros. It is required that C/C++ programs can also issue these macros via function calls in a similar manner.
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Needs more information

Update SMF 30 records to show system values that relate to the data in the record.

I raised TS016225304 because when a Boost happens the SMF 30 interval records are terminated early so that they don't accrue information from different system configurations. You get one interval record for the period up to the boost starting, one...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

In OMEGATOM v5.6 the Performance Summary panel should show all regions, as OMEGAMON CU v5.3 did

Description-The number of regions listed on the Performance Summary panel does not match the total number of regions under the CICSPLEX Name on the All Active CICSplexes panel. Need to have all regions listed, not just the ones with active transac...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

UKO-Agent should have his own Messages in zOS SYSLOG

We have the need to control and automate messages from the UKO agent. So if something changes in a Key Dataset (e.g. CKDS) with UKO, we need to be able to react from zOS. Actually, the only way to be aware of changes there is to analyse SMF data. ...
about 2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 1 Under review

z/OS Python set AUTOCVT/AUTOTAG only when using the python command

IBM® Open Enterprise SDK for Python was originally written for ASCII platform, the code is ported to the z/OS environment. Automatic code conversion is needed to get it working. Therefore the AUTOCVT and AUTOTAG environment variables have to be se...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0

Improve FFDC for GDPS

In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Debug a Cobol program (6.3) using LangX side file

With Cobol 6, we cannot debug programs using LANGX side files. We would like to continue using this feature as we were able to do with Cobol 4 programs
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic activation of CDP logging function after it was disabled

Dear developers, We enabled CDPz data collection function integrated within IWSz to have EQQ8006I (indicating the status change of jobs scheduled in current plan) message to feed our home grown web tool. But we met an issue - While the owning syst...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Optimize tagged heap lookup service routine.

Currently tpf_eheap_tag() and tpf_eheap_locate() are convenient APIs to retrieve heap buffer addresses across an ECB's lifetime. The tpf_eheap_locate() service routine in the CP executes a sequential search through all heap buffers until the provi...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

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