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Customize colums in HILM report outputs according to DSGVO

We've got requirement because of DSGVO we are not allowed to show Systemuser Field in generated reports.So we would need the following extensions: * Administrators can customize which fields are available for non administrative users that can view...
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

CPBPLIM should not be allowed to exceed 50% and ALL DEPS nesting level default should be less than 99

The CPBPLIM parameter can have values up to 99 which means 99% of memory is reserved for current plan buffers and 1% is available for everything else. This leads to memory related abends such as S878. Similarly the "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" in panel EQ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

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
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Prepare the product using z/OSMF for Software Management

Software management by z/OSMF would make new function, Installation, FIXes, and APARs handling easier.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

Support codepage 500 and 1148 with HACP EE

Our systems are configured with codepage 500. To be able to use HACP EE it is mandatory that it supports codepage 500 (Multilingual ) and 1148 (Multilingual with EURO).
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Please provide support for these KEX • ecdh-sha2-nistp256 • ecdh-sha2-nistp384 • ecdh-sha2-nistp521 • diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We removed diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 due to compliance issue. After that, we can't establish the session using HOD. An SSH session using Tectia works to validate SSHD was functioning on the remote system. Is the...
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 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

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.
about 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Remove DB2ADM Requirement for Install & Support

DB2ADM access is too board for the shop. No one in the company has this access. The product should be able to be supported by application teams.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release