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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Ability to launch ZVDT from CP4AIOPS (Infrastructure Automation) Portal

ZVDT currently provides RESTful APIS that can be used to launch it. Having this capability in the IA portal would provide a user friendly self-serve interface for the developers who will be using the CP4AIOPS porta. An ansible playbook would be re...
3 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
3 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
3 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Please add the resolved queue name and MQ reason text to the BEVA0015E message

The use of the term "Transmit Queue" in Online Message BEVA0015E is misleading and derails operations staff troubleshooting. In the MQ Vernacular "Transmit Queue" is a special Queue associated with an MQ Sender Channel. For Error Message BEVA0015E...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

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