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Provide capability to recover JES2 buffers other than TGS (SPOOL)

Provide flexible code to support monitoring and recovery of JES2 buffers similar to TGS (SPOOL).
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

INGQRY/AOCQRY was not available for MTR resources

INGQRY/ING$QRY delivers attributes of an APL resource.No INGQRY/AOCQRY was available for MTR resources.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

In PL/I MPO to Java converter in J2C Add the ability to use bit values other than multiples of 8

During a POC, IBM Germany is attempting to use the PL/I MPO to Java tooling in J2C packaged with IDz but supplied by RAD. The include file has bit fields that are currently not supported. This request is to add support for bit fields other than in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TWS not status update before Tracker start

【Environment】 z/OS 2.1TWS 9.2 5Host SYSPLEX JES-MAS Event detection using JES-EXIT Controller runs on one host Scheduled to be released to IzWSV9.5 on October 30, 2021. 【Events】During host maintenance, only the maintenance target host is stopp deg...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 6 Future consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Add the capability of Hydra support to CTC

There is a customer currently in the PoC process using IBM CTC and is very interested in the product but they are requiring Hydra Support.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ITOM enhancements request

We are asking the development to deploy these two functions: 1) We used to have a way of printing a report within an INDEX/VIEW in a batch job with CA-View. As far as we know, ITOM does not have this functionality. 2) When issuing the equivalent o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data items

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data item.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

INGLKUP to expand EXLUDE functions to multiple fields not just jobname

Currently INGLKUP uses UET INGLKUP EXCLUDE to compare against the D J,L command to see what jobs to exclude. Sometimes the standards are in the Step name or Procstep name and it would be nice if the exclude list was enhanced to allow the user to s...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer

After migrated to CTGV9.1 we get an error CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer we are working with both TGV8.0 that V9.1 and problem occurs only with last version 9.1 seems that , working with prev...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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