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Enhance the Reporting on DASD Volumes such that not all are reported on as MOD9s

Use the number of cylinders per Dasd volume to denote if a MOD27 or MOD54 rather then denoting all volumes as MOD9s.
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

IZPCA: New subtype record definition for SMF 119

Hello,related to TCP/IP for z/OS Component on IZPCA, we ask you the possibility to define new record for SMF 119 for following subtype:SMF 119_41 SMC-R link group statistics recordSMF 119_42 SMC-R link state start recordSMF 119_43 SMC-R link state...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add CEC info to GDPS panel VPCPSTD1

GDPS panel VPCPSTD1 includes an 8 char column with LPARname. However, from this panel an user cannot determine which CEC an LPAR is defined on.It is possible to have duplicate LPARnames on different CECs. This is useful if system instances are mov...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

CICS should execute the EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO command under the EXECKEY of requesting program to honor CICS storage protection.

Currently when a USERKEY task executes an EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO if the receiving data area is smaller than the container data the program creates a storage violation. Because CICS processes the GET CONTAINER command on behalf of the task, a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

HA setup for zAPM in Kubernetes/OSE environment

The current zAPM Implementation is not designed for HA (Active-Passive) setup. The current setup when installed will immediately start querying the configured AppDynamics controllers and is not suitable for passive setup. A HA setup will help with...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy. If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash. The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it pe...
about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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