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Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
5 days ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Submitted

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
6 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Add instream support for procedures called from JCL, and STEPLIB support

Competitor's testing products utilize process to make changes to execution JCL that include making the impacted PROC instream. This allows for PGM= substitution to their monitoring program, modifying PARM statement if required, modifying existing ...
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Submitted

Programmatically Update Monitor INTERVAL Start via AUTLCP1

There is no way currently to accurately set the timer on an ad hoc basis. Essentially the timer starts when the Interval value is updated or when a master switch occurs. In our use case, we have set up alerts for Partial Captures via GEO2976I, but...
8 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Submitted

Be able to change margins in PCOMM

We have users that are copying and pasting text to/from an CICS-application, but the almost missing margins make it harder. The margins are not always that small, it seems to happen with text. An example is the system log in SDSF in z/OS. Only the...
11 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Submitted

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
13 days ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Submitted

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Submitted

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
14 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
14 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

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