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Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improvement for the zos_copy / ibm_zos_core collections module (based on ZOAU’s dcp utility)

For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

Please Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support to z/OSMF Connection(s) in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3

After migrating to MFA at our organization, our z/OSMF connections in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3 became obsolete due to lack of support for MFA. In the interest of security and standardization, please consider adding MFA support to z/OSMF. Tha...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Under review

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
5 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration
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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

In addition to open idea ZWS-I-230 besides removing the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME, it would be better to remove parameters BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME and just use SETSSI commands

We are continuing to have a lot of serious issues resulting from the use of the BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME parameters to make changes to the subsystems for zWS controllers and trackers, for example recent HIPER APARs PH59155 and PH59387. The BUILDSSX a...
9 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

WAPL: Create same ability of CLDATE to select specific days of the week for PRDATE

We are in the process of automating calendars and periods with WAPL. The function of CLDATE has the capability to select days of the week but PRDATE does not.
17 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

z/OS Connect doesn't have all standard OAUTH provider authentication methods implemented as per RFC 6749 and

z/OS Connect currently only supports either basic authentication or private key JWT authentication methods ( 2.3.1 . Client Password) in RFC 6749 while authenticating with OAUTH JWT providers to procure the JWT token and inject into the API call. ...
25 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

CATTool should Provide Date of Master Key Changes

As part of the Crypto Card or KDS Db2 tables, The CATTool should provide the date that the MKVP value was first stored in the KDS or the date that the MVKP value was changed in the KDS as a result of reencipher. This support was recently provided ...
2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / Other 0 Under review

Add new RULES option for IBM2674I message, similar to RULES([NO]PADDING)

Please add a new RULES option like [NO]UDSALIGN, similar to RULES([NO]PADDING), to control the IBM2674I message about the alignment of user defined structures: Under NOUDSALGIN, no IBM2674I message will be produced. Under UDSALIGN, IBM2674I messag...
10 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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