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Option to prevent inadvertent use of LINKAGE-SECTION data items prior to establishing addressability

In a COBOL program, the LINKAGE SECTION is used to describe data structures that are made available to this program from another program or method. Addressability to these data structures are established in a variety of ways, such as via reference...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 8 Future consideration

Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Automatically populate the "Data Type" when running a selected DB2 statement

Since the previous "Value"s are stored after running a selected DB2 statement, it would be helpful if the "Data Type"s of these host variable would be retained. This would be especially useful for queries with several conditions. It seems as thoug...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Performance improvements reuested when using the built in Remote Connection Emulator under IDz 16.0.2

Compared to standalone host connection emulator software like PCOMM, the built in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) under IDz 16.02 is slower in performance when navigating ISPF screens and entering commands. The usability of the RCE could be impro...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Extend "Check Topology script" to verify that a Region Swap would succeed if executed

Almost an extension of the Check Topology script, but goes further by validating that everything is available, remote lpars, Standard action settings that would be used, replication links, etc. We had a failed production region swap test (first tr...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

Message when PPI status changes

Some NetView functions need to connect to the NetView PPI to be operational. We can see these vis DISPPI command. We manage a couple of function using SA and have to poll the DISPPI command to check the connection. To make this processing better, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Options to reduce report created by LTPMA or LTP extend

Running LTPMA (Long Term Plan Modification All) or extend LTP job, does not give you any option to reduce output from LTP. We would like options to reduce the output from these jobs.
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors)

We currently migrating APIs SpringBoot applications from Java version 8 to 17. Currently, we are using IBM Liberty Host and IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.7) to integrate with IMS 15.1 with Java version 8. However, we need to migrate to Java v...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

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