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Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

Monitoring Data to include security wait time

We often have short but impactful delays that are recorded in SMF 110 performance records with only "Lock Manager" wait time. There are various reason why a lock manager wait could occur so we can't tell from the SMF data. The instructions from IB...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Assignment of IMS MASTER terminal

Remove the need for ++USERMOD against DFSICL70 or other individual solutions to circumvent the /ASSIGN problem with IMS MASTER terminal
almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Future consideration

Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Bracket matching in COBOL

Bracket matching is a feature in Eclipse that allows you to visually match opening brackets to closing brackets to get an even better overview about what parts of the code to belong to each other. That feature seems to be missing in the COBOL Edit...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...

Automatic or assistance function for handling submitted jobs' status 'missing' after maintanance

We are running 50k+ batch jobs under IBM workload scheduler control everyday and hardly can find a clean window without any batch running for host maintenance (rolling IPL) or IBM workload scheduler itself recycling. We usually found those submitt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration