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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

CLEANUP.RECON should clean up bad/orphan records

Please update the DBRC command CLEANUP.RECON to delete bad and orphan records
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

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

Specified default Editor should be used for non extension data set

When a sequential data set that has no file extension is opened ona remote system, the zSystems LPEX Editor is used as defined application.Even when the zSystem Editor is defined as default editor for the filetype "*.*" (no extension), the extensi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future 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

License activation without user interaction

We are defining the ADDI installation procedure as an automated task, so it can be executed as automatically by a pipeline to provision a new server. The license activation requires a human interaction and can therefore not be automated
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Time Stamp Display Format (GMT/Local)

We are requesting the ability to choose the display format of the Time Stamp in CICS Explorer - Completed Tasks to be either GMT or Local time. We would like to publish reports on Completed Task but with a Time Stamp "hard-coded" as GMT will confu...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

ServiceNow or JIRA Adhoc Job Submission to the CP

Eliminate manual error prone process by introducing the ability to have adhoc job submissions, change of workstation for HOLDs or DUMB via the ticketing platform (ServiceNow / JIRA) with approval workflow.
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Functionality already exists

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