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Improvements to Load Parameter Management in Standard Actions

In our production plex, we have 576 load parameter combinations for our applications systems. Performing mass updates is cumbersome and time consuming. We would like to see enhancements to the process thus; 1. The ability to backup these entries t...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

Exit blocking unencrypted CICS outbound connections

In todays IT world, where business security is top priority, it would be useful to have a possibility of blocking unencrypted outbound CICS TCPIP connections (WebServices, HTTP connection).
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

MSGID field in PIPE EDIT and MRT needs to be larger

Increase MSGID in PIPE EDIT and MRT from 12 characters to 16 (or more, if convenient).MSGID currently has a limit of only 12 characters.NetView AT already supports MSGID of up to 255 characters. While this will probably never be needed in my caree...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

GDPS command to initiate LCP EXPORT function outside of panel VPCPLCPD

Idea@IBM: GDPS command for the initiation of LCP EXPORT function with DSN parameter and optional DISP & VOLSER parameter. Current implementation only allows manual generation of EXPORT dataset via the VPCPLCPD panel. Reason: To allow automatio...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

GDPS PREVENTS USE OF XCF FUNCTION

Bradesco bank uses GDPS for all Sysplex related maintenance as recommended in the GDPS manuals. However, when there is a need for updates in the CFRM policy customer would like to make use of the DISPLAY XCF,REALLOCATE,TEST command to check for po...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Enhanced DBB User Build results view

Today, DBB User build is prompting the developer after the execution with a dialog to list the programs build log and the build report.When the developer closes the dialog, the information need to be retrieved from work directory on USS, which tak...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Option for overwriting files without confirmation when Configuring Dependency Based Build option.

Currently, if you are starting a user build from the Configure Dependency Based Build option, you have to go through several pop ups to authorize overwriting existing files.Please add an option in global preferences or in the user build configurat...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add an enhancement to support the use of same named RTEMS and HTEMS procs in Sysplex environment (shared PROCLIB)

Customer has a Sysplex environment. The same PROCLIB is shared between several z/OS systems. Customer's environment is designed to use identical STC names on all z/OS systems in the Sysplex. They need a way to use the same approach with all Omegam...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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