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Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Planned for future release

Achieve multi-tenancy support for the sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text)

As the need for a multi-tenant system with TWS grows in significance due to the decentralization of work across various groups within the company, having a mechanism to separate sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text) among different auth...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Encrypt native 3270port for consoles or TSO by SSL/TLS

The Port for native 3270 for master-/hot-consoles and TSO is unencrypted. This can be discovered by penetration tests. Security forces us to encrypt every connection. There should be a possibility to add a server certificate and open an encrypted ...
about 1 month ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Under review

Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Incrementally restore a subset of SGC volumes

PH44217 introduced incremental restore capability to Production but is currently an "all or none" approach. We believe there may be scenarios where specific volumes or applications might be affected by corruption and so we would like to have a sim...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add a filter for filename on task rule 'file activity' and a delay.

Currently, when using policy and task rule 'file activity', we monitor all files activity. I would be interesting to be able able to specify a filename in task rule 'file activity' because usually we want to take action on specific file, not all. ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Policy : Option in action part of rule to do nothing

Currently, when using policy, each time a rule is triggered, we must code an action (message, event or abend). I would be interesting to add an option 'do nothing'. I will allow to code rule for exception (exclude specific resource) with no action...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Option in action part of policies to stop scanning of rules when one is applicable

Currently, when using policy, task rules are scanned and applied even if first one is applicable. This is explained in documentation : Specify thresholds for the following attributes as filters. You can define multiple task rules of the same rule ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists