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the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
22 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

All SDF messages from all domains visible in 1 SMU dashboard

Because the SMU source code in specified that the “Domain Name” or “Resource ID” is required, it is not possible to create a dashboard in which all SDF messages from all systems are visible. In our “traditional” environment, we now have our “own” ...
23 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Submitted

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
26 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
8 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

Externalize X'4032' Checkpoint Log record layout

Provide a DSECT and/or layout of the data within the X'4032' checkpoint log record " OTMA TPIPE/QAB/TIB/MTE/MCB". The main use we have in mind for this is we'd be able to see the ENQCT, DEQCT, QCT for all Tpipes at a given checkpoint. Similar to w...
4 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Submitted

The HSIJANLO needs to be able to use AT-TLS

We need a way to remove the weak handshake ciphers from the server side.
5 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Submitted

Setup jwt based authentication to connect zCEE

Hi Team, We would like to build API's from zCEE and display API callgraphs but to access our Production zCEE , we need to setup jwt (json web token) based authentication between ADDI and Prod zCEE but as per IBM case - ADDI is only having basic au...
5 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Under review

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