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HOLDDATA for ADF products - Support FIXCAT and ERRSYSMODS reports

Add and update Enhanced HOLDDATA (http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html) for all ADF FMIDs.Currently, each product must be checked individually: * Explorer for z/OS - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27047906#311...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Future consideration

CDP CPU usage by workstream

We currently run a single log forwarder and datastreamer on each LPAR. They gather various sysouts and operlog entries for multiple applications to a number of different Splunk and Elastik servers.Require the ability to determine how much CPU each...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for CICS Transaction Gateway on z/OS

kerberos support for the CTG component to provide SSO capabilities
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Userbuild resubmit Job

Starting a userbuild with already generated Job often causes failures
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Monitoring Self Describing Agent (SDA) by situations

The Self Describing Agent functionality to keep the TEMS in sync with z/OS (maintenance) is very helpful. Within the Enhanced 3270 there is a good overview of the SDA seeding process and it's status. In this overview we sometimes notice a 'error' ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Mitigate potential security exposure of current ETT functionality by identifying/authenticating user triggering the ETT job

At present, there is potential security exposure for ETT triggers set up as 'JOBNAME REPLACE' = N. Reason being, any user can inadvertently or otherwise submit a trigger job defined in Production ETT database thereby triggering ETT application eve...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

idletimout statistics

Please provide the ability to display the idletimeout value and the number of idletimeout counter for the display; also in explorer. The ability to view this information not available in the product. The idletimeout value can be viewed in the .ini...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Simplify verification of occurence/operation status after performing a CP REFRESH (dialog option 9.5) by having an available copy of the pre-refresh files on a separate controller

Currently it is very difficult to get all the occurrences and operations in the current plan (CP) into the correct status after it is necessary to perform a REFRESH of the long term plan (which deletes the current plan). In fact it is so difficult...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Further methods in generated classes

I was building a proof of concept system for an internal project using JZOS Record Generator, and ended up writing a few static helper functions that it would be nice to have inside the class, namely a constructor from String and an equals method....
about 1 year ago in Record Generator for Java 1 Future consideration

zunit usermod detects DB2, IMS, LE, MQ that are in different zones

Today there are no automatic way to detect that the DTR, LE, IMS or DB2 modules has been updated in the other SMP/E zone. We are using multiple zones independent of each other and the solution that IBM offers does not work for us. solution: Zun...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

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