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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

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
2 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Provide the possibility of having a consistent copy in Region A when we are in a Region Switch situation (Production in REGion B) in the GDPS MGM3SITE solution.

It is very dangerous to propose a Region Switch in MGM3SITE, since in that situation we will not have a consistent copy in Region A (copy between Region b and A in Global Copy format). In this situation if we have a problem in Region B, the data i...
9 months ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

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

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
5 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 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 are APARs ( X...
5 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition of information related to IFCID 369 and load them in a new D_KPM_DB2_% table

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition (Record DB2 with deltas calculation via DRLSD64D program) of information related to IFCID 369 (Aggregated Accounting Statistics). This will let us get accounting information aggregated from the SMF ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Limit IRLM lock timeout function only to IFP regions

In Japan, most of the bank customers use application framework called SAIL which is a GBS Japan's asset, running in their production core banking systems. It runs as MPP for SAIL control regions and IFP for application regions under control of SAI...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration