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Enable zIIP Usage for Node.js

IBM is porting more and more new workload to the z/OS Plattform. Some of them (e.g. Db2ZAI, Zowe) requires the use of Node.js. Currently, Node.js is not eligable to run on zIIP. With this, the MSUs would account to the normal software costs (TFP, ...
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 0 Future consideration

Discovery Products Use By Month - option to download all the usage data from all systems combined

One of the #1 things I use the product for is the Discovered Product Use by Moth. In here, after drilling down from LPAR>LIBRARY, I get the most granular data usage, going down to the jobname/userid/date/library, etc. 99% of the time, this is t...
13 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
13 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
13 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Submitted

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
14 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

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

As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
27 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Import COBOL copybook in lowercase

When uploading a cobol copybook into a new API Service Project, all attributes are in uppercase although the copybook was in lowercase.We have to change every attribute to lowercase because of the standards at the customer.
27 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Functionality already exists

Add CPSMOBJ resource to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records

Hi Team,Request is to add CPSMOBJ to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records.Adding CPSMOBJ will help us to monitor if any exposure to CPSM objects or CICS resources through CMAS.
27 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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

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