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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

Prevent errors during migration to a new zWS release by allocating files via EQQPCSxx jobs to have the same sizes and other characteristics as in the previous release

Currently the provided jobs (tailored by EQQJOBS) like EQQPCS01 and EQQPCS02 allocate tiny files with default characteristics. However most customers make changes, like increasing the allocation of the files (more cylinders) or modifying the MAXRE...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Improvements to Load Parameter Management in Standard Actions

In our production plex, we have 576 load parameter combinations for our applications systems. Performing mass updates is cumbersome and time consuming. We would like to see enhancements to the process thus; 1. The ability to backup these entries t...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Exit blocking unencrypted CICS outbound connections

In todays IT world, where business security is top priority, it would be useful to have a possibility of blocking unencrypted outbound CICS TCPIP connections (WebServices, HTTP connection).
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add a Descriptor and/or Route Code to DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE like in PL/I to do WTO (ASM)

Today, the DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE statement has a default Desciptor Code of 2 and a Route Code of 3. For automated log processing, it is important to be able to specify these codes. The only way today is to call an Assembler program performing WTO. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Submitted

Support for User defined function in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to work DB2 User defined functions trough IDz UI. It would be an improvement to have the ability to work with and debug those for the de...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

Delta IDAA tables for SMF interval DB2 statistics

On IZPCA there is activity of delta tables ( D_DB2_BUFF_POOL_% - D_DB2_SYSTEM_% ...) these work using record procedure DRLSD64D for DB2 statistics records, that calculates the delta values for the fields. There is also an existing mapping for RECO...
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review