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enable capture when engine tasks are down for any reason

Currently if an engine task is taken down such as for product maintenance, i.e. the SMF engine, any records cut in the period it is down are lost and not streamed to the target. This is obviously an unacceptable loss of data in the real time monit...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls. See case TS013086777. Thanks
12 months ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

EQQUSIN expand job number field and add duration in 100th*sec

Actually the EQQUSIN has a duration limit of 99 hours 59 minutes. We have external jobs with longer durations and need the exact duration in tools like Xinfo. As described in the documentation, the ACT_DUR field has a CHAR size of 4. Updating oper...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

support DB2 LUW as key repository for EKMFWEB

We have z/OS customers interested in pervasive encryption that do not run DB2 on z/OS. Currently only official support exists for DB2 z/OS as key repository. As the EKMFWEB product supports jdbc2 type 2 and type 4 it could target a DB2 LUW running...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

DSECT should be documented in COBOL

Serviceability
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Showing originating user for request from SMU in the netlog

We are in the middle of implementing SMU for our colleagues . To see if anyone is using SMU and if so, who is using it, I noticed that the netlog does not show the actual user for a request. For example I performed a move for a movegroup, using SM...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

Allow High-Speed Connector to function in CRAS state or above

RTMC uses the high-speed connector to send data to the off-host Linux listener. Since RTMC is the new way to send performance data, and eventually user data, we do have a need to know what the system is doing in all states.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Need function to run CDP Log Forwarder data source discovery function on demand

Provide a function to allow the Common Data Provider data source discovery function to run once, when commanded by a user. This would often be used when Discovery Interval and Pattern Discovery Interval are set to 0 (due to CPU usage requirements)...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Change requirement for one HLQ for the IMS RE runtime libraries

We have a shop standard where authorized libraries have a HLQ that is different from non-authorized libraries. In my case APFDA for authorized libraries, SYSPDA for non-authorized libraries. This is causing issues installing and using the IMS Data...
about 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Registration Scanner to record logical files but skip scanning them

There are scenarios, where a LogicalFile should be recorded within the Metadatastore, but the file does not need to be scanned. This applies for instance for configuration files, JCL, XML, PROCs, DDL and others. Today, the DBB SearchPathDependency...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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