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KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T: fields related number of transactions and the response time when HPDBAT is active (OA62758)

Hi all,we work with IZPCA table named KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T to execute analysis on performance at service class level.When HPDBAT is active on DB2 of our systems, fields TRANSACTION and TRAN_ELAPSED_SEC show us misleading informations.On OA61811 (https:...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improve the messaging for LCP Configuration changes in GDPS

LCP is critical to our cyber protection planning. We maintain our SGC captures for 7 days, and for security reasons wish to raise an alert of the retention period is changed. Currently there is no GEOxxxxxW message issued just a vague GEORPT messa...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

Issue a GEOxxxxxI message every time an LCP SGC capture expires, including a creation timestamp in the message information

This would allow customers relying on LCP for cyber security to monitor the expiration of capture to ensure that no captures were being expired outside of agreed time limits.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
3 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Increase size of DB2 column LF_LNAME in table LOGICAL_FILE to accomodate larger input file names.

Currently the column LOGICAL_FILE.LF_LNAME is set to CHAR(32) in the DBB DB2 metadata store. In some situations this causes DB2 error (SQLCODE=-302, SQLSTATE=22001) when trying to use files with names longer than 32 characters. The only solution t...
7 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

HOD v14.0.2. FTP client does not support the SECURE SESSION REUSE feature

HOD FTP Client is the most used FTP client in our environment.As we're using FTPS with TLS 1.2 at the moment, we couldn't use SECURE_SESSION_REUSE parameter with REQUIRED value, as HOD does not support this FTP feature.I'm opening this RFE to impl...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

GDPS MGM Support for FC1 Incremental Flashcopy

This customer's implemented on October 10th , GDPS MGM Global , with three sites and a fourth copy FC1.They are doing the Flashcopy every day and they are complaining about the time to complete the full copy.One of the solutions would be to change...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 7 Planned for future release

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When analysis 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 determined ...
about 1 month ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Add a Descriptor and/or Route Code to DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE like in PL/I to do WTO (ASM)

Today, the DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE statement has a default Desciptor Code of 2 and a Route Code of 3. For automated log processing, it is important to be able to specify these codes. The only way today is to call an Assembler program performing WTO. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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