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Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

GDPS and LCP reporting

We don't want to face errors when using GDPS and LCP. First suggestion.We ask for a way to automatically monitor and a proactive report on the virtual Capacity used values before a volumes Safe Guarded Capacity(SGC) runs full. Today in GDPS panel ...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

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...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

Allow API/SAR Deployment to specified Folder Location

Related to RFE 112082, We envision the Eclipse API toolkit having a pop-up providing an option to specify a location when doing a deploy. It is important that our application developers for each of our lines of business to choose their separate LO...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

NetView E/AS improve logging and integrate in CANZLOG

NetView E/AS should provide more information about what is done with a processed event. This information as well as all E/AS messages should be available via the CANZLOG and eligible for automation.This way we would be able track the sending of an...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

GDPS ReIpl with Activate

New funktion in GDPS standard action.ReIpl with activate.
over 8 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPC Operations query - CBU records

It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
about 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

GDPS Sysplex Resource Management provide confirmation

When using GDPS Metro Sysplex Resource Management function to switch Sysplex policy, please display the policy GDPS is going to activate and switch on panel VPCPASSU.So users can visualize and confirm which policy GDPS is about to activate and con...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

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