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GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Add LIKE capability to dtouch

Add a new optional parameter to dtouch shell command (and corresponding Python API) called --like (or maybe --model) which takes the name of an existing dataset. This argument would override (and could be specified completely in lieu of) other all...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
9 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Create a command/feature to execute KCPRLIM in all CICS regions (or CICS AORs) at same time.

Customer has 463 CICS and sometimes they need to change RESOURCE LIMIT (RLIM) related to some transactions. So, it is necessary to execute the KCPRLIM 463 times to change these resources for each transaction. If a new command/feature is created to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

CPC Operations query - CBU records

It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Show the occupancy level of the extended groups of GMFC and FC1 (ESE) disks in the GDPS MGM solution.

Good morning, In the KP-systems we have a query screen for the occupancy of the 'Pools' on the 'VPCPQSTM' screen, where you can check the occupancy level of the 'Storage Pool Capacity' of the primary and secondary units. In the case of GDPS MGM, t...
10 months ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

Simplify the process of extracting volumes in MGM copy.

Good Morning, In environments where GEOPARM is complex, managing extraction of multiple volumes of the MGM copy is complex. The process is very manual (you have to go through GDPS panels to RESUME the disks, then FW the FCs, then delete the GM/GC ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Compatibility of IMS TM Resource Adapter with Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors) Namespace

We currently migrate a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). So far we used the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 with Java EE in a large number applications. We need an enhancement, to...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Call External Stored Procedures

Hi, Our company uses a lot of external stored procedures (mainly written in Cobol, Java). It would be great if the IDz gets a possibility to call them. After entering the input parameters, the result (e.g. output parameters or result sets) is disp...
26 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

IMS API first approach

See https://github.com/zosconnect/sample-cics-api-first Would be great if this API first approach would not be limited to CICS, should also be possible for IMS. Eliminates the need to maintain the designer installation and learn how-to use the it....
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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