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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...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 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

The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
15 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

IQIBUTIL add a FINDTEXT option to copy the selected members as can be done via ISPF

Via ISPF FINDTEXT one can copy the selected members to another file for further processing, but using IQIBUTIL in scheduled batch jobs this is not possible.
15 days ago in IBM Data Set Commander 1 Under review

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

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloads du...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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

Setting IPLType on KG-Syestem versus setting on the (LCP) R-system should be same

In an LCP setup it is possible to set the IPLTYPE both on the KG-System as on the (LCP) R-System. When setting it on the KG-System it is also propagated to the R-system. The other way around this is not the case. So when setting the IPLTYPE on the...
4 months ago in GDPS 4 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

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