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Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...
6 months ago in GDPS 2 Future consideration

zCDP Logforwarder to support JES Spool Compression

Support for JES2 spool compression was introduced in z/OS V2R4. Compression can potentially improve system performance and increase capacity by reducing the amount of data that must be written to and read from SPOOL. Data is compressed as it is wr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

Option for overwriting files without confirmation when Configuring Dependency Based Build option.

Currently, if you are starting a user build from the Configure Dependency Based Build option, you have to go through several pop ups to authorize overwriting existing files.Please add an option in global preferences or in the user build configurat...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add an enhancement to support the use of same named RTEMS and HTEMS procs in Sysplex environment (shared PROCLIB)

Customer has a Sysplex environment. The same PROCLIB is shared between several z/OS systems. Customer's environment is designed to use identical STC names on all z/OS systems in the Sysplex. They need a way to use the same approach with all Omegam...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

RMFIII report STORM in CDP

Could we have RMFIII report STORM in CDP ? we currently have STORR STORC and STORF , but STORM is missing . kind regards Régis
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

UKO: /ukebase/server.xml improvments

It would be easier to have the same timestamp in each log (joblog, syslog, messages.log, trace.log). Currently our zOS logs are in local time and the GUI logs are in UTC. Please add a variable to server.xml in /ukobase to set a timezone Another go...
2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

HBOG054E message to be sent to syslog

Today, HBOG054E is issued only to STDERR, wouil it be possible to have it sent to the SYSLOG, so that we can trap it via System Automation and raise an lert ?
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

GDPS RACF SAMPLE FILE

SA provides SAF configuration support, which provides a sample file for configuring RACF groups and NETCMDS profiles configuration for SA. GDPS could provide similar sample file for RACF to externalize the security of IBM SA and GDPS configuration...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

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