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Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
19 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Submitted

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
20 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Externalize X'4032' Checkpoint Log record layout

Provide a DSECT and/or layout of the data within the X'4032' checkpoint log record " OTMA TPIPE/QAB/TIB/MTE/MCB". The main use we have in mind for this is we'd be able to see the ENQCT, DEQCT, QCT for all Tpipes at a given checkpoint. Similar to w...
about 1 month ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future 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

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...
8 months ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

Compatibility of IMS TM Resource Adapter with Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors) Namespace

We currently migrate a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). So far we used the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 with Java EE in a large number applications. We need an enhancement, to...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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

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

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

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