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Digital - default range machine for enhanced signal producing device for water splitting

Digital default machine-device for enhanced signal producing device with inbuilt provision in cars for water splitting feature supported by small size quantum battery with automatic on / off facility
12 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Abends in the Software due to Deadlocks, Buffer full, etc.

When the product abends manual intervention is required to restart it. This requires support staff to determine the cause and restart the task. It also requires that a case be opened that your staff has to review and respond it, wasting time, then...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for TRS-Files and XMIT in FileManager

FileManager should support datasets like TRS-packed files,(used AMATERSE or TRSMAIN).The Suffix (sorry for windows-like wording) .TRS should be an Indicator to present a "look-into" and/or the ability to unpack it.Also a packing-ability should be ...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic close/open of MRO connections

If an MRO connection needs to be altered (e.g. change number of sessions) it is not possible to close and re-install the connection without stopping IRC. This is an unacceptable situation in a 24 x 7 production environment. MRO connections must be...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility

At the moment, the CreatePasswordFile utility requires an interactive console which prompts the user for the password. This idea is about to extend the CreatePasswordFile util and supply a batch mode: The user supplies both the password file locat...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Client and Build Configuration

We would have to add a filter in AD Build Client (when the pop-up opens) and AD Build Configuration in order to find our projects in the list more quickly.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

GDPS/PPRC management of an additional PPRC-XD relation off the secondary FC target.

We would like to manage with GDPS a PPRC-XD relation starting from the secondary FC target of the production sysplex to our pre-production sysplex disks.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

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