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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

As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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

Grouping feature to group the jobs for more granular anomaly detection in AIDA

We would like to request the implementation of a grouping feature within AIDA to enable the grouping of jobs(by application) for more granular anomaly detection. Currently, AIDA will provide anomaly detection for all jobs in the workstation. Howev...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

GDPS LCPm must be able to cater for a mixture of virtual and physical airgapped SGC copies in a 4-site MGM configuration

In a 4-site MGM configuration with a physically air-gapped 5th site, we would like to have the ability to take a SGC in the production (or DR region) and on the 5th site. Currently, GDPS LCPm in a 4-site MGM configuration only supports virtual iso...
8 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Create SMF79.15 records when IRLM TIMEOUT value is exceeded but before IMS LOCKTIME is

If LOCKTIME is set in the DFSVSMxx member of the IMS proclib, the creation of SMF 79.15 only occurs at the same time as a 3310 abend for environments other than IMS batch. If SMF 79.15 records are created when IRLM TIMEOUT has been exceeded regard...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Prepare the PMT (Preserver Mirror Tools) to manage the registration/deletion of devices both at the Metro Mirro level and at the MGM level.

If I'm not confused, currently the PMT can only be run to be able to manage (high/low) devices at the Metro Mirror level. In a GDPS MGM3SITE (or MGM4SITE) environment, we can only use the PMT for the MTMM part. It would be interesting to be able t...
11 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

z/OS Connect support for mutiple Single Sign On algorithms

Our enterprise single sign on capability can use one of two different algorithms. Unfortunately, z/OS Connect looks specifically for one or the other – not both. And this can then cause a failure when receiving one it does not expect. Our request ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted