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Trackinglist - Call Sequence Report: create a filter to ommit Orphan Transactions groups

-Trackinglist with callseq parameter: The purpose of the call sequence report we seek is to discover the flow of transactions that are being executed in our system. At this time, we would like to see only complete paths/flows in this report and no...
about 2 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
3 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Under review

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
10 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

We are asking for an enhancement to FM for IMS to have the capability of add/update a template, for an IMS managed ACB system running in an IMS data sharing environment, on any IMS within the data sharing environment.

The capability to add/update a template for an IMS managed ACB system, on a system where the IMS region isn't running, isn't in the current design of File Manager. We would like to see the enhancement of the product, to run/update a template on an...
10 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

ZOAU interface with SDSF

Just as with REXX one can use the SDSF REXX API to access any/all information from SDSF so should ZOAU be able to do the same. There is so much information available via SDSF that could be useful to the ZOAU user.
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
7 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

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