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GatewayConnection Async support

We would like to have async version for gateway.Flow(eciReq) method in order not to block the current thread while waiting response from Mainframe.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

System Automation possibility to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF

During the planned IPL of one of the Lpars in our enterprise (18 Lpars), the gateways to/from this Lpar to all the other Lpars are disconnected (of course). This results in a red message on the gateway panel on all the other lpars.Especially when ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Creation of a data set growth metric suitable for identifying abnormal data set level growth.

Customer's are often challenged with identifying culprit data sets and applications when storage group growth exceeds expectations. Often subject storage groups can be several TB's large and identifying excessive growth at the dataset level cannot...
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Client 0 Future consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Please enable TWS API to be compatible with Composer's text format

Currently all our schedule dumps are in Composer's text format and all the schedulers and teams in the bank are used to reading and understanding the text format. We would like to enquire for future roll outs, will TWS API be compatible with Compo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table

Request is to update ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table when the LOCAL parameter is not supplied (replacing current process of using the default local IP address).
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Make 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...' more flexible to fit customer needs

Hi, I have some issues with function 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...'. I collected these after talking with our developers, so this are issues real developers have. We took those issues using latest IDz 15.0.2 on Linux. As reference have a l...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 2 Future consideration

Add Kafka Headers to the DefaultPublishHandler Interface

We'd like to see the DefaultPublishHandler provided in PJ45923: Guaranteed Delivery Support for JVM Services, to be enhanced to include support for Kafka Headers. Currently the interface only supports the Key and Data related to the Kafka message....
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

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