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Bypass combined DBRC UNAUTH request for multiple AREAs

/DBR DB and /DBR AREA commands can issue the DBRC UNAUTH request for a list of AREAs, the maximum number of AREAs in one list being 160. When the UNAUTH request is isseued for a list of AREAs, the RECON can be reserved for a long period of time. T...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 6 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...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

z/OS connect need to support payload compression

Our API requester endpoints support compression (gzip, brotli) by accepting the HTTP header “Accept-Encoding”, to optimize the payload size. We would like z/OS Connect to support compression by honouring the HTTP request header “Accept-Encoding”, ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Planned for future release

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 22 Future consideration

Update ZDHST with NVP and ECB Owner Data

As we continue to increase our use of Name-Value Pairs(NVPs) for troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the NVP area has become crucial to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve test and production issues. Most of our dumps ...
16 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Needs more information

CICS region id and CICS default id should not be same .

Hi , In CICS We will have CICS REGION id and CICS Default id and, both id should be used differently , and Security access also have to be different. in current scenario in SIT DFLTUSER={CICSUSER|userid} , if we code DFLTUSER=CICREGID ( where DFLT...
16 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to send an empty body with other http response code then 204 (no content)

Seems that when you use http response code other than 204 and you remove the body in your mapping that there is always a body of the tags above.It should be possible to define whether you want a body or not. For example: we want to use 202 without...
16 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Remove parent tags from input and output bodies

When you make a API with an input body (JSON), you always have to give the parent tags of the service instead to those that really are related to the content of what you want.Same for the output body (JSON), where those parent tags are always show...
16 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

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 2 Future consideration