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CICS should shutdown when its initiated via EXCI program that issues a PERFORM SHUTDOWN

CBAC product could be made more useful to customers.
6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Build Map to include Source PDS apart from GIT Path

As a part of COBOL Build the PDS from where a COPYBOOK/DCLGEN dependency is resolved can be extracted and stored in Build Map along with ISPF stats attached to the member. This will help in detecting changes made to the dependency when the COBOL e...
6 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Bug using 'Search' within Remote Systems view

When performing a Remote z/OS Search, where the 'Regular expression' check-box option is selected for the 'With name:' text field, subsequent searches use the initial 'With name:' value regardless of if it gets changed or not
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
6 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
6 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Add an option to use IBGENER to copy files using DCP

To use IBGENER to copy some files that is having problem using the regular DCP command, good example is the SYSDEBUG/SIDEFILE output from PLI or Cobol compiler to use with File Manager or Debugger.
16 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
16 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review

CUZCLOUD active task queue persistence across restart.

In case of a restart of the CUZCLOUD STC the active task queue is cleared. This doesn't permit to close safely the STC in case of planned outage of one of its components (z/OS, network, storage, HW) or unplanned events. At the restart of the STC w...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Needs more information

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
29 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

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