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Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Health Check about IC Definitions

We simulated a Site1-Outage in the Production but loose all Images sysplexwide (except the Master KSYS). IBM told us in the Case that we use not the newest Inital Clists (IC) for the Operators. It would be very helpful if a GDPS Health Check can c...
30 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Host Emulator Macro Availability

Macros are an invaluable feature that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by recording keystrokes and commands. Having this feature will greatly improve productivity and user experience. Below are some specific use cases where I see it being...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Automatic increase virtual capacity for volume Safe Guarded Copy

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume. The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However,...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Need CDPz integration to support TWSplex with standby controller

Dear support, We Morgan Stanley mainframe team would like to adopt CDPz integration to collect real-time messages to analyze. In our environment we installed TWS as plex with both primary controller and standby controller. Currently we enabled CDP...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

See only Sessions from Users under Admin

We use the dynamic Appllist in the most of our susersessions.Then today, if a Admin-user will select the sessions under ADMIN in the Supersession from an other user, he will see all his sessions. But he need only see the sessions, witch the user h...
about 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 5 Future consideration

Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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