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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...
5 months ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

Optional parameter to avoid STATUS V1 for DEDB REPL

In IMS V6 APAR, the meaning of MINBYTES in the DBDGEN SEGM macro for DEDB has been changed, so that an unexpected status code "V1" may be returned to REPL CALL for DEDB in IMS V6 and later. In order to avoid this problem, IMS development provides ...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 0 Under review

Limit the region type for IRLM lock timeout function

In Japan, most banking customers use an application framework called SAIL, an asset of IBM Japan Consulting, running in their production core banking systems. In the SAIL system, the SAIL control regions run as MPP and the application regions run ...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
13 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Future consideration

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Report possible active CC session(s) during a planned HyperSwap

A planned HyperSwap is not allowed if there is a DFSMS Concurrent Copy (CC) session present in the GDPS environment. GDPS reports this with "HyperSwap not possible due to CC session(s) in primary or secondary disks." The user has to use the F ANTM...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration