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Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

File Manager Compare - display offset

Enhance File Manager compare output to show offset when using record field display. It is possible to have several field in a cobol recordstructure with same name. The compare then shows the name only, but not which one of the fields. This is FMZO...
4 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

WorkStation Not Reporting But "submit-NO'

Like a case TS016443942 we need to have a Not Reporting workstation but that possible to put "submit no"For example when the operator must manually stop a plan "halfway"where the plan has a "non-reporting workstation" as the successor of the first...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

CA7 jobs scheduled ID with 000 should be available for ca7 impact analysis in ADDI analyse client.

We have most of the batch jobs defined/scheduled in ca7 with SCHID 000 but in ADDI analyse client SCHID 000 is unavailable for impact analysis. with out that half of the jobs will be unavailable for ca7 in ADDI impact analysis and that will impact...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Licence Manager fixes release

Implement proper version control and provide fix list for each version release of IBM Host Integration License Manager. As en example on fix central you can find: fix pack: HI_v13.0.0_LicenseManger fix pack: HI_13.0_LicenseManager for the product ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

Enable File manager in IDZ to work with MFA enabled

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.
4 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reference Application for zAPM components

Consider shipping reference application style scripts/injectors/stubs with the zAPM components to help the deployment teams to verify the installation without having to engage multiple teams across different technology areas. For zCEE - Consider u...
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow different zAPM Distributed Gateways to communicate

Where there are multiple DGs that may be globally dispersed, CICS (SYSPLEX1) connected to DG1 => MQ => CICS (SYSPLEX2) connected to DG2 may result in events being sent to different DGs for a single end to end message flow. Even though the DG...
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration