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Unnecessary ARM Check

No checking of ARM environment if ARM is not enbled
about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS not status update before Tracker start

【Environment】z/OS 2.1 TWS 9.25Host SYSPLEXJES-MASEvent detection using JES-EXITController runs on one host 【Events】During host maintenance, only the maintenance target host is stopped, and operation is continued in a degraded state.When starting a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

LONG RUNNING ENQUEUE AUTOMATION

When long running enqueue automation is enable an optional alert can be specified should an enqueue be detected. AOF950I JOB jobname ON sysname HOLDS AN ENQ FOR nnn SECONDS ON RESOURCE source There is no clearing alert being issued when the enqueu...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Include elapsed upload time in cloud dataset display

During file upload CTC calculates the current upload rate and elapsed upload time, both values are visible in the active tasks display. Once the upload completes the entry no longer exists under active tasks, but it is available in the cloud datas...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JWT Client Token Coded CTG.INI

JWTclient Token coded into CTG.INI file, It is not a good solution from separation of duty and Security Audit Perspective. JWT Token and the CTG general parameters should coded in different file and controlled by different teams.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty

System : CICS Liberty - Registry Actor : User who has the dist LDAP ID by ID Propagation and SAF ID in z/OS In the CICS Liberty, the ID Propagation can be configured to support mapping the distributed LDAP registry ID and SAF ID. In this case, the...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration