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WorkStation Not Repurting But "submit-NO'

Like a case TS016443942 we need to have a Not Reporting workstation but that possible to put "submit no"For example when the operator must manually stop a plan "halfway"where the plan has a "non-reporting workstation" as the successor of the first...
17 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

CA7 jobs scheduled ID with 000 should be available for ca7 impact analysis in ADDI analyse client.

We have most of the batch jobs defined/scheduled in ca7 with SCHID 000 but in ADDI analyse client SCHID 000 is unavailable for impact analysis. with out that half of the jobs will be unavailable for ca7 in ADDI impact analysis and that will impact...
17 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Document changes even in security PTFs

When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Create a command/feature to execute KCPRLIM in all CICS regions (or CICS AORs) at same time.

Customer has 463 CICS and sometimes they need to change RESOURCE LIMIT (RLIM) related to some transactions. So, it is necessary to execute the KCPRLIM 463 times to change these resources for each transaction. If a new command/feature is created to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Simplify the process of extracting volumes in MGM copy.

Good Morning, In environments where GEOPARM is complex, managing extraction of multiple volumes of the MGM copy is complex. The process is very manual (you have to go through GDPS panels to RESUME the disks, then FW the FCs, then delete the GM/GC ...
11 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

IBM should handle the location and moving of the CFRM Message-Based Manager

GDPS produces the following alert: GEOH125E VPC8C011 GDPS_CHECK_XCF CFRM Message-based manager system is a Controlling System This is an indication that a role is found active on the GDPS Controlling system which may lead to an impact or prevent G...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 17 Planned for future release

Enable File manager in IDZ to work with MFA enabled

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.
18 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

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