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Possibility to disable automatic "PU config on" by GDPS when CBU is active at IPL

Any z/OS system that is IPLed after the CBU, CPE, BOOST, or OOCoD activate will automatically have the PUs configured online during GDPS initialization in that system. This is not always a wanted configuration. For example, when Dev/Test system ar...
7 months ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

CPC Operations query - CBU records

It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Empty results form DB2 query should show column with no entries like previous data source explorer

If you do a query that returns no results there is no visual notification of that fact.
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
19 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

SQL autocompletion

Hello, In IDZ15 we had autocompletion of column names of DB2 tables in sql scripts (see attached file Capture1.png). Can't we find the equivalent in IDZ1604?
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

GDPS LCPm must be able to cater for a mixture of virtual and physical airgapped SGC copies in a 4-site MGM configuration

In a 4-site MGM configuration with a physically air-gapped 5th site, we would like to have the ability to take a SGC in the production (or DR region) and on the 5th site. Currently, GDPS LCPm in a 4-site MGM configuration only supports virtual iso...
5 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
20 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

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