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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:...
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow paste to overwrite to end of line

Other 3270 emulators, such as Attachmate Extra! have the ability for a paste to overwrite to end of line, and not just by the length of the copied data. I would like to see this ability in PCOMM. When copying data, you should be able to flag a set...
3 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

CTG .NET Client Support

We need Instana on Z/OS to support CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) .NET clients. This will help us better monitor and trace transactions. Please prioritize and implement this feature in Instana. It's crucial for our operations and will enhance our ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Planned for future release

Allow lists of programs or versions by parameter

Currently, using the cicsrequestexit provided with the CTG (BasicCICSRequestExit) it is possible to reject requests that come from a client with a lower software version than we indicate. Similarly we could do so for those requests that try to inv...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 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...
6 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 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

z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 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...
almost 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