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High Availability Worload with IPIC

Need a real High Availability Worload when connecting zcee and CICS with IPIC. Not just fail over.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

need to add AD Parser support for Control-M DOCOND statement

We us the DOCOND statement in our Control-M environment. This is connected to case TS015149717 which contains code examples.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enable SQL simple comments in FM/Db2

Why useful: CA FILE-AID (and QMF) supports SQL simple comments, but FM/Db2 does not. With this enhancement it will be easier for their users to transition to FM. FM/Db2 just ignores any statements after an in-line '--' comment. SQL simple comments...
8 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide additoinal commands for Purge

How we can control the COMMITS in the PURGE statement of the DRLPLC utility. We need to set a low commit so we do not get logs filling up and eliminate “DSNI031I -DBP2 DSNILKES - LOCK ESCALATION HAS OCCURRED FOR” issues.? Need additional parameter...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

ADDI - JDBC Driver

Product requires DB2 Connect instead of using JDBC driver.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - DDL for install/customization

The ADDI product internally generates and executes the DDL required for product installation. It is our requirement that we customize and install any and all DDL for all vendor products.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

zCentric job delays due to

We are looking for an EASIER way (either through EQQAUDIT report, or WAPL or RESTAPI even) of determining when a zcentric job is delayed due to parallel server limitation being exceeded (AND what the limit was set to as users can change the limit ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

CTG daemon should do self-check and cleanup IPC queue regularly

Customer think the CTG daemon should do self-check and clean up the IPC message queue regularly
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration