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ibm_db to be shipped with supported driver

IBM should ship the the ibm_db driver with their Python for z/OS. Underway is a DBA modernization initiative where we are bringing in modern tooling and languages such as Python for z/OS and in particular the ibm_db library for communicating with ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Lock Manager incompatibility between PI and IRLM

We are implementing IMSPLEX configuration for a customer (see diagram attached). Currently we have IMSP instance running on MVS2 LPAR and we are going to add IMSO (IMSP clone) into another new LPAR, using Shared Databases and Shared Queue. See det...
5 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Create round-robin algorithm for CPSM routing.

This new routing algorithm would add to the existing [LN]GOAL and [QUEUE]. Allowing, by option of the system management, that the distribution of the routing is perfectly balanced. With the choice of this algorithm, it would be interesting to para...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG to fully support OPT(2) or OPT(3)

When the PL/I compiler is performing optimization, it has the ability to move statements in the resulting executable. When this happens, the backwards traceability to the actual written source statement is lost. The information is avaiable in the ...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

move GDPS to run under ansible as compare to NetView

Unify automation solution, increase UNIX usage on z/OS and reduce software cost.
5 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

Personalized session colors

Our collegaues are very positive regarding session coloring (active and current colors) which was delivered via PTF UJ07698 on v310. But it would be nice if people could decide for them selves whether or not to use colors, and customize which colo...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration