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Add Job Confirmation Option to Error Panel

We would like to have the capability in the error panel (HANDLING OPERATIONS ENDED IN ERROR) to have user preference option for job confirmation. This would act like application confirmation today (type Y to confirm you want the application force ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Supporting HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

IWS z/OS IEFACTRT exit should write messages to JOBLOG instead of SYSLOG

Currently the IEFACTRT exit for TWS z/OS (SEQQSAMP member EQQACTR1) writes WTO messages to the z/OS SYSLOG (OPERLOG) when the restart and cleanup feature is used (RCLEANUP(YESL)) parameter. This can be avoided by using IEFYS instead of WTO.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

In a resource overrides .yaml file, allow multiple attribute values within a single selector clause to be OR'd.

Currently the logic would seem to support 1 attribute value on a given selector clause. If I have a resource attribute which can have many possible values and I want to trap some set of those values and apply the same override to each one, I have ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

NetView command to refresh RACF access privileges

We need to protect modification commands, and only grant access to them as and when required. As NetView caches the RACF access privileges, it means commands can still be used after the access is taken away. NetView needs to either use the live RA...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Modify INGREQ Command Dialogs AOFKVFY1

When issuing a STOP vote against a grouip, update the logic so that the INGREQ verify panel AOFKVFY1 shows ALL affected resource, not only those defined directly to the group.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Allow system shutdown phases in z/OS Proxy-managed systems

For GDPS managed systems, SA z/OS provides three distinct phases in the final shutdown processing that are defined using the special message id SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN message/user data policy item for the MVS Component entry type. This is not supported o...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

TNEW threshold applies to individual CICS transaction.

We are trying to capture docs for a long running task that can run anytime in a CICS region but TNEW function does not work because of the limitation of the threshold apply to the entired CICS started task.
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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