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Automatic or assistance function for handling submitted jobs' status 'missing' after maintanance

We are running 50k+ batch jobs under IBM workload scheduler control everyday and hardly can find a clean window without any batch running for host maintenance (rolling IPL) or IBM workload scheduler itself recycling. We usually found those submitt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Assign LPAR activation profile using GDPS

We would like to be able to specify the LPAR activation profile to be used for an LPAR Activate. I see this as very similar to specifying the Load information (address & parm).
over 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Different methods to connect with IDZ Debugger

Our new VPN software is not functioning with the TCP connection or does not allow connectivity through the IP address/port number. Looking for alternative methods of connecting IDZ Debugger session back to the user when TCP connection is unavailable.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

Increase ITOMWeb the 40 character limitation to 100 characters in the password dialog box.

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases and allowing ITOMweb to match this limit aligns them with this RACF limitation. This would allow users to have a secure password / passphrase created and used by all of our IBM products.
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

CC Quiesce for Planned HS

At a Planned HS and if GDPS detects CC's I would like to get an WTOR with the Information how many CC are active and the options Quiesce HS, Abort HS, Cancel CC's or Repeat the WTOR to see if there are more or less CC's active.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 19 Not under consideration

Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SAF data set access check for target task's user profile to consider access of user profile for the task from which the command originated.

When using EXCMD to route a dataset update through an autotask, we have noticed that the access used is the access of the autotask itself, rather than the orignating user. This means that a user could maliciously update datasets just by routing th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
9 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release