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Job Duration Alert (supports different alert threshold for different Jobs)

As per TWS for z/OS V9.5, apart from new feature allow user defined ALERT/ACTION if an operation does not start or complete, I would like to have an alert for jobs that is in late (late means that a job is started and its "expected duration" is pa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ZCHCH to include a parameter for ONLY the count of chains (not the display of all chains) as well as MAX (or ALL) parameter in place of numeric for number of chains

Parameter for COUNT of chains would eliminate the need to ZPAGE through page after page of displays of addresses to get to the count. Then if chain addresses were needed, a redisplay without the COUNT parameter could be done. Parameter for MAX (or...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need a field (attribute), of the TASK resource table, which allows me to have the CPU time of a "THREADSAFE" task.

In a threadsafe application, all DB2 Requests stays on L8 TCB.The cputime is only going to get updated when we come off the L8 TCB. (If it were a quasirent applicatoion and switched back to QR after every DB2 request, the cputime would be accumula...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide option to copy zFS logs to VSAM files

Team, Please add functionality into z/OS Connect code to provide an option to copy the zFS logs to VSAM Files. Thanks, Pawan.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Create latest HOD package in Docker Container

Bureau of Fiscal Service is currently upgrading Host On Demand implementation and moving from AIX to RHEL and to the latest version of HOD.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

Provide library javax.smartcardio

requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Future consideration

CICS Explorer ability GLUE Disable / Enable or TRUE

To new copy a program; need to Disable and Enable in the new copy process; presently do it this way: CECI DISABLE PROG(U8D1XMEO) EXITALL <<--can't be done in Explorer CECI SET PROGRAM(U8D1XMEO) NEWCOPY <<-can be done in Explorer CECI...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Create a functional entry that displays the CVE's, APARS and programs loaded into the z/TPF operating system

This would be extremely useful for our delivery of internal audit requests relating to CVE vulnerabilities on the z/TPF platform. As discussed in the past a functional entry should display the CVE's, APARs associated with the CVE and programs that...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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