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Detailed logging for standard action/scripts

This RFE is a follow up to problem record 44584.211.788.Recently we were surprised by the shutdown of one of our systems. We checked the netlog to see what happened and saw that someone brought the system down via GDPS standard action.We tried to ...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

z/OS connect need to support payload compression

Our API requester endpoints support compression (gzip, brotli) by accepting the HTTP header “Accept-Encoding”, to optimize the payload size. We would like z/OS Connect to support compression by honouring the HTTP request header “Accept-Encoding”, ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Planned for future release

See only Sessions from Users under Admin

We use the dynamic Appllist in the most of our susersessions.Then today, if a Admin-user will select the sessions under ADMIN in the Supersession from an other user, he will see all his sessions. But he need only see the sessions, witch the user h...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 5 Future consideration

Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend

The EQQSERVER uses storage below 16 MB. If we have a lot of jobs using EQQSERVER, we get an S878.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

64 Bit Addressing for Full Function DB Buffer Pools

Exploitation of 64 bit address space for Full Function DB for both OSAM and VSAM buffer pools (similar to current DB2's capabiltities).
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

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

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