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Serviceability enhancement to CICS IPCS Formatter for 64-bit storage information, from the SMSGLOBAL block to SM=3

I'd like to request a serviceability enhancement regarding 64-bit storage information which is available at dump time. Please would it be possible to add the information from the SMSGLOBAL block (SMS pagepool stats) to SM=3? It would also be usefu...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Export 88 levels as JSON comments when building a Z/OS Connect API in Z/OS explorer

The 88 levels in a Cobol program and copybook contain very useful code that could very easily turn into comments when exporting. These comments would be helpful for downstream developers to know constraints on certain fields
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

COBOL Level 88 Occurances

If a level 88 COBOL variable is selected in the editor, the Occurrences functionality does not extend to the data element declared with the level 88.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Need a step by step tutorial for zUnit with local projects

The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Evolution of occurs numbers in program IMS DB import

The same like in the PMR.We have an issue with the occurs numbers in program IMS DB report. This is a consequences of the counting of every programs.After discussion with AD Architect, we have a solution by adding two columns : inner occurs (just ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Ability to define a start and stop priority of High, Med or Low for APLs linked to a Pacing Gate.

For example if we have 53 tasks, WASA01 – WASA15, WASB01 – WASB22 and WASC01 – WASC16 linked to system 9S04, we would like the ability to define a Pacing Gate, set the Start limit to 4, but also have the ability to assign a priority such as High, ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) > 2042 TOD support - address most likely IBM dependencies in customer code

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide > 2042 su...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Authentication Server (DEX) for Concurrent users login/usage at a time.

Authentication Server (DEX) is present in our current ADDI version 6.1.1 for Authenticate users but if we enable DEX concurrent users cannot use analyse client(zos explorer) at a time. below is the IBM case we raise for reference TS013538333 Pleas...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for IWSz Reporting (DBOPT)

Currently IWSz requires user ID and password in DBOPT to enable Database connection to DB2 reporting database. We need to eliminate the use of password in DBOPT. Provide Kerberos support to DBOPT for IWSz historical reporting.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

APG desired availability NONE

We require a new Desired Available setting for APGs of 'NONE' - i.e. the group doesn't have a 'Desired Available' value and would use the 'worst' status of its members as its Compound and Observed status's. This would mean the group could be ACTIV...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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