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Spark method to more easily use datasets

There is no simple way to feed dataset data into Spark through the shell which is a common method of invoking Spark. A function should be developed or a script made available that would be an official IBM method to use datasets with Spark.
22 days ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 0 Submitted

Enable File Manager in VS Code

Mainframe developers sometimes need to use File Manager. More and more, they are using VS Code for day-to-day work. It would sure be nice to have an extension in VS Code for File Manager, not least so that you can look at messages in and definitio...
6 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Include the Storage allocated by program in the historical painel KCPTASHP

Now with OMEGAMON for CICS V5.6 is possible to see in the interface 3270UI (TOM) which programs were executed by task in the historical view (KCPTASHP) and their elapsed and CPU Time.It is very important to CUSTOMER. Congrats lab! The question is:...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
4 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enabling GENDAYS in EQQAMRPL (AD - Run-Panel)

Since GENDAYS is very helpful for simulating runcycle groups and rules to verify the definitions, it should able to use it in EQQAMRPL (AD - Run-Panel). Since the command GENDAYS can already be used in the database to verify runcycle groups, it se...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SMF records type 70 for Crypto should show show the nickname CEX8C instead of binary value x'13'

R7023CT OFFSET 1 LENGTH 1 BINARY, -- Binary Crypto processor type -- X'03' = PCICC PQ78777 -- X'05' = PCIXCC (z990 only) PQ78777 -- X'07' = CEX2C à10A -- X'09' = CEX3C à10A -- X'10' = CEX4C à16A -- X'11' = CEX5C à21a -- X'12' = CEX6C à23A Manipula...
4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Not under consideration

Prepare the PMT (Preserver Mirror Tools) to manage the registration/deletion of devices both at the Metro Mirro level and at the MGM level.

If I'm not confused, currently the PMT can only be run to be able to manage (high/low) devices at the Metro Mirror level. In a GDPS MGM3SITE (or MGM4SITE) environment, we can only use the PMT for the MTMM part. It would be interesting to be able t...
7 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
about 2 months ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Under review

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