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Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Compatibility with Google Cloud

It would be really usefull to have dedicated option to define Google Cloud server and use Cloud Storage XML API to manipulate data in Google Cloud Storage buckets.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add caching capability for non-JWT style token

We are starting to utilise IMS and CICS as API requesters and we are considering the future performance of our infrastructure. We have a concern about our authentication pattern which we think will add overhead to our API requestor flow. The...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

GDPS 4.1 Missing FlashCopy Devices Information

The information from VPCPFCSO panel does not provide the device number of the tertiary copy which is what we are interested in. Under GDPS 3.14, we can obtain the tertiary DASD info from GDPS under FCQueryS from VPCPQSH1 panel under DASD REMOTE COPY.
about 5 years ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

GDPS and support for mirroring of volumes related to Controlling LPARs

If a critical situation occurs and our volumes used for a Controlling LPAR are cleared we must recover the entire LPAR somehow......
over 2 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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

DBRC Extracts

Useful for querying recovery related information
about 2 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

change default redirect to logoff.aspx

add the capability to change the default redirection to logoff.aspx from logoffprompt.htm. Examples: sending a postmessage to host from an iframe or redirection to another page.
about 2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration