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Add started item to DSI633I

When NetView functions are started/stopped using the NCCF commands START and STOP. The action is confirmed by message DSI633I. Eg: DSI633I START COMMAND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED We manage a few NetView functions via SA, so it would be useful to be ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Full Hyperswap Support for IDAA on z/OS (SSC)

In discussions when preparing to start out PoC for IDAA on z/OS GDPS Support, it was shared that Hyperswap is not fully supported in SSC like a z/OS LPAR, and it takes an actual outage because the IDAA instance needs to be restarted after the swap...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
8 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Enhance testing capability of SYSPLEX RESOURCES

We have a test environment for GDPS/Metro that is contained within one physical disk subsystem. The TEST=YES option is used in the GEOPARM to tolerate this setup. We would like this TEST=YES feature extended to accommodate the SYSPLEX RESOURCE MAN...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

GDPS/Metro 4.2- No need of any contextual validation? when View command used for a Script

When we select a script with view we clearly indicate that we do not intent to launch the script
over 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0

Support for User defined function in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to work DB2 User defined functions trough IDz UI. It would be an improvement to have the ability to work with and debug those for the de...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

STGRCVY=NO should work as documented

Why is it useful? Abending the victim task of a storage violation is a defence against applications acting upon and/or committing corrupted data. CICS Documentation (all releases) promises "If you specify STGRCVY(NO), CICS abends the task if it is...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICSPlex Global TRANCLASS

We would like to have a the possibility of defining Global Tranclass Resources, and this way to be able to activate them with 'CICS System Group' scope in a CICSPlex.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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