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Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CDP and USS files group option

Currently the CDP user can set the group option to config the collected scope either Sysplex or Lpar only for Generic VSAM and Sequential data sets. For Generic zFS data streams, this option is not enabled. Could you change it please ? TS014662042...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Replace Workload Scheduler exits with build in functionality

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the APAR level of the TADz/IZSAM scan agent used to create scan file

Every month we receive many thousands of IZSAM scan files from client systems around the world. Often we receive queries as to why their QMF has not been correctly identified, or other issues that have already been resolved by the developers. In m...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Use of generic character in SET TRANSID for CBAC

We are planning the migration from CA DADS to CICS Batch Application Control and faced the need to convert CICS commands like “CEMT SET TRANSID(XX*),ENABLESTATUS(DISABLED)" allowed in DADS,too, as CBAC command using “SET TRANSID”, that is the only...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

Single Sign on with RTC and IDz

We use Rational Team Concert and IBM Developer for z.Users must logon in both Systems. Passwort in IDz cannot be stored because of security.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Convert zWS Exits to Parmlib

Due to the limited Assembler skills, it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain our multitude of zWS-related user exits. It would be beneficial to have the option of paramertising all zWS exits to allow us to remove our dependency on the legac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter support on Spring Boot

We have several Java applications needing to invoke IMS transactions running on Cloud Native Platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). It would be beneficial if support was added for Spring Boot functionality for deployment of the resource adapter TMRA.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

support us to allow only one session for one user at a time through DWC.

It is possible now that multiple sessions can be started for a single user at a same time. Multiple sessions can lead to data integrity issues when concurrent access to the same data is allowed. We must restrict the no of sessions for the same use...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration