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Avoid GDPS Healthcheck SPOF for single rack DASD subsystems

In TS003711052 we encountered an issue where GDPS/PPRC Healthcheck claimed to detect a single point of failure - "all paths share a SPOF on control unit interfaces". This is not a real issue because the DASD is a single rack subsystem and we expec...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards.

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards. Currently, the columns for "Crypto Online" and "Crypto Installed" are part of the report but they display 0 even if the actual value is not 0...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Create Volumes that can grow Dynamically in zD&T

Currently, allocating a Volume in the zD&T implementation means creating a FULL SIZE Volume at initial allocation. This can create pressure on the User to allocate "up front" a LOT of space even though this space will not be needed right away....
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to debug EGL web services running on WAS

Currently it is not possible to debug an EGL web service which is running on a WAS. The only possible way to debug such a service is to write a (small) client which calls that service anddebug it that way. In that way you are however not testing t...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Not under consideration

Transaction Userid should be used for the authorization of Commands submitted by MPP Pgm through CSLOMCMD or REXX SPOC API

Currently the Userid used to submit a Command through CSLOMCMD Macro used by a AOP Program that runs in a MPP within the processing of a Transaction is the MPP Region Userid and not the Userid of the User that submitted the Transaction.IMS should ...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Need IDz v16 to be installable with Installation Manager

IDz v16 is currently only installable via Eclipse P2: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6826641 Installation process of earlier versions was with Installation Manager and it would be easier to upgrade to v16 if IM was also available.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Future consideration

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