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Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
8 days ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Submitted

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
22 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
22 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

TESTing INGAMS refresh processing

It would be really helpful to have a way to TEST the INGAMS REFRESH processing without actually performing the policy refresh, after a policy build has been completed. It will help prevent surprises during change window when we perform the actual ...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Submitted

Enable zIIP Usage for Node.js

IBM is porting more and more new workload to the z/OS Plattform. Some of them (e.g. Db2ZAI, Zowe) requires the use of Node.js. Currently, Node.js is not eligable to run on zIIP. With this, the MSUs would account to the normal software costs (TFP, ...
2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 0 Under review

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
7 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration