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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

Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

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

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

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

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

SQL autocompletion

Hello, In IDZ15 we had autocompletion of column names of DB2 tables in sql scripts (see attached file Capture1.png). Can't we find the equivalent in IDZ1604?
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 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...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration