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Add parameters SYSTEMS to VPCEQURY on the G-Sys (GDPS GM)

We are in the middle of exploiting LCP. Every evening we perform an automatic IPL of the CVE (Cybervault Verification Environment) from the flashcopy devices to see if the data is readable and there are no issues. Before we start we want to check ...
4 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration
158 VOTE

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Needs more information

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the Reporting on DASD Volumes such that not all are reported on as MOD9s

Use the number of cylinders per Dasd volume to denote if a MOD27 or MOD54 rather then denoting all volumes as MOD9s.
9 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Include additional open-source tools for System Administration/Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and Development.

Enhance development ease of use, expand system administration/automation capabilities and continue to transfer Linux skills to the z/OS platform. A suggestion for the next set of tools to add: System Admin: sudo, gpg, openssl CI/CD: groovy/gradle,...
17 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

Default SMU Panel with INGPLEX Functionality

We're users of the INGPLEX commands with the TN3270 Panels. Some functionality is really useful such as the INGPLEX IPL, SVCDUMP, SLIP etc. panels. We would like to see a default panel within SMU which has the same functionality as the TN3270 Pane...
17 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Submitted

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Add a filter for filename on task rule 'file activity' and a delay.

Currently, when using policy and task rule 'file activity', we monitor all files activity. I would be interesting to be able able to specify a filename in task rule 'file activity' because usually we want to take action on specific file, not all. ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration