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GDPS/MGM does not handle all status combination

In a GDPS/MGM environment there are situations where the primary and secondary GM status combination is not handled properly. For example, after a hardware failure on an intermediate disk subsystem, if the B volumes are set to SIMPLEX due to a CST...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Enhancing RTMC NVP collection in tpfrtmc to extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data would enable examination of the underlying distributions for better insights that simple averages would hide.

During RTMC NVP collection the tpfrtmc component could extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data, which would include the following: ECB lifetime CPU burn time Finds Files Etc. This would enable examination of the underlying distribut...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Integration of zLDA with ServiceNow

We currently have multiple products that are interfacing with ServiceNow, but want to consolidate (or remove) the redundant products. This is very important to our organization / company that the mainframe data have the ability to port data into S...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface"

We would like to have the possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface".This way we can make sure a new "EGL - Create EGL client interface" action is not moving records to other sourcefiles. In the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Add field names to the streamed CSV when using Generic HTTP subscriber.

The Generic HTTP subscriber is a great option to be able to integrate with 3rd party and opensource tools. The CSV format is easy to exploit and adapt. However it has no header and only contains the raw data, which greatly reduces its usefulness. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Global Mirror in NOK state GEO* message

GDPS does not currently create a GEO* message that can be monitored and alerted on when the Global Mirror is in a “NOK” state. When the Global Mirror replication is in a “NOK” state we would no doubt have issues with DASD replication along with ad...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

IBM HATS high severity security issue - Session Fixation

Using HATS, the session id (JSESSIONID) created on login page of the application is not changed after successful authentication. Due to this application is vulnerable to high severity security issue - session fixation.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Use timezone offset already in SMF 110 records for CICS components

We would like an option to use the timezone offset already in the SMF 110 records, instead of the CICS_TIMEZONES lookup table to reduce the amount of wrong data collected during a time change and eliminate the need to monitor the offsets in the lo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Improve the standard log for jwt token validation

Some of the error reports in the validation of a JWT, such as iss configured not corresponding to the one present in the jwt or JWT not supplied in input, do not raise an exception as in the case of a badly formed JWT (e.g. expected 3 parts presen...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Permit group selection of ACPs for enablement/disablement in the CCA node management utility included with the EKMF install.

The ability to perform group selection of ACPs would expediate the task of activating ACPs for a role instead of one at a time. (This would have been particularly useful in activating all the TR31 functions.) Note: We are running EKMF v9.4.1 on a...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 1 Planned for future release

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