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Panel EQQMMADP should have the same behaviour in filter capabilities as panel EQQMOCCP

If I want to create dependencies via Panel EQQMMADP in the current plan I get back a list with much to much results. In CPs with huge workload this can make EQQMMADP unuseable (several hundreds or thousands of applications in the list) Why EQQMMAD...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

JSON PARSE – Conversion / Differentiation of NULL values

NULL values in PATCH method (how does Java actually differentiate?) When using the http request method PATCH it is necessary to distinguish whether a field was omitted or whether a null value was sent. A construct similar to the JSON PARSE conv...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Cobol JSON PARSE - Keep unparsed JSON Structures/Fields

It should be possible to store everything that is attached under a JSON object that you specify in an Xer field. For example, if I get a list of orders that I then have to pass on to subprograms, I would like to be able to parse {"topic": "xy", "o...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS record based channel containers/queues

CICS should support an alternative or enhancement to channel containers that is record based rather than byte based. These would be similar to temporary storage queues, except they would have the same visibility and lifetime rules as any other cha...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Solution in IZPCA to provide information based on SMF_121

Hello, Currently I don't see any solution in IZPCA providing information based on SMF_121.Could you please confirm if you have been working in some solution to provide information using SMF_121 or planning something on that? Thank you!
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

Make IZPCA RMMand SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

GDPS CA UI filter for the workload components

When Displaying the workload components in the UI for the workload , Ability to filter only the lines with status active,
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

Query and Set the Fence status of Db2 IMS and VSAM for GDPS CA workload

This is will be a useful command to query the fence status of the databases, before the switch process, Also ability to set fence / unfence the databases to put it back in a right state so the next workload switch will work without failure
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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