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Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

New action type for CICS policies

Requesting a new action type for CICS policies: The ability to fail a CICS API request with a RESP/RESP2 code that indicates "REQUEST DENIED BY POLICY"
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
3 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

LCP - Some warning should show up in a script in case you do LCP recover from a Partial Backup

LCP captures/Safe Guarded Copy are immutable copies/backups. So we better make sure that these backups are complete - not missing a volume or more. When you start a IBM z Cybervault sysplex, i call it a recovery sysplex, manually or full automated...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 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.
3 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

upload temp. asymmetric configuration in a Dual Leg config, to migrate one secondary DS8000 at a time

We currently have 3 DSS pairs GDPS METRO HS). We need to life cycle one pair and for this we would like to use for the time of migration the MTM3side solution.All primary DSS are in Channelsubset 0 and the seconndary DSS are in Channelsubset 2! Th...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 10 Planned for future release

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
3 months ago in EntireX 1 Under review

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