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Recover autotask/operator assigned to a MTR resource

SA MTRs that execute timed commands, once in execution or queued to an autotask, are never rescheduled if assigned AUTWRK is cancelled. A STOP+START of the affected MTRs is required to reschedule them. To solve this user can create an automatic RE...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

CICS PL/I compiler issue

Problem description from Developer: "Error in CICS PL/I compile"DFHDUMMY are a variable that the integrated CICS-preprocessor add to the program source.The declare of DFHDUMMY as STATIC, trigger a warning message in all EXEC CICS statements,where ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

Add FIX capability to SYS1 catalog compare in Adv Catlg Mgr (as previously requested in RFE34731)

I had submitted RFE34731 for Adv Catalog Mgnt for zOS 2.4 to add the capability to compare SYS1 datasets in different master catalogs and provide the fixes to sink up the missing datasets. Just like the alias compare does now. I receive notificati...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow system symbols in started task parameters

Please allow system symbols in all parameters for the decision support started tasks.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Prevent a task from coming up in another system until it is completely down in another system.

This request is to prevent one of the applications that we are running from unecessary being flagged as broken by allowing SERIAL Move Mode specification in a SERVER group. SA automatically starts a member of a SERVER group in another system when ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

N/A should not be considered greater than 0 when sorting on 'Elapsed Tran Time' attribute.

In panel KIPDEPS (IMS Dependent Regions) if we sort on the column 'Elapsed tran time' we see that dependent regions having an elapsed tran time equal to N/A are shown before regions having an elapsed time greater than 0.We think it would be more a...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Fix IBM JRE class redinition/retransformation

internal JTC Requirement (94991): The requirement is to 'Allow unloading ofall redefined classes except for the original (will be intermixed in theRAM/ROM segments with other classes) and the current'.Development team has agreed to analyse the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

choosing different splunk hec endpoints

We are in need to choose/use another splunk hec endpoint which is impossible at the moment.We do need at least use the splunk hec raw endpoint for sending data which need to be processed in splunk before they are entering the splunk index.e.g. com...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Future consideration

Requesting a clear of the ZBEVF usage and error stats via a functional entry.

Requesting IBM to allow for a clear of the ZBEVF usage and error stats via a functional entry. Today it's only cleared at IPL.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Sort jobs by start time order in Plan

Our users reported that the jobs in Plan are not sorted in start time order. Below is the output of jobstream in conman. And please see the screenshot that the jobs are sorted by start time. May I know if it is possible to amend the conman output ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

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