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GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Prepare the PMT (Preserver Mirror Tools) to manage the registration/deletion of devices both at the Metro Mirro level and at the MGM level.

If I'm not confused, currently the PMT can only be run to be able to manage (high/low) devices at the Metro Mirror level. In a GDPS MGM3SITE (or MGM4SITE) environment, we can only use the PMT for the MTMM part. It would be interesting to be able t...
6 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

Standalone Dump support in GDPS AutoIPL

In order to allow prompt response in the scenario of a system failure, automating a standalone dump taking upon system failure is a key process for collecting essential diagnostic information and at the same time allow prompt recovery of system to...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Compatibility of IMS TM Resource Adapter with Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors) Namespace

We currently migrate a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). So far we used the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 with Java EE in a large number applications. We need an enhancement, to...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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