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SE workload migration

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3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

load balancer at infrastructure layer

load balancer at infrastructure layer
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Under review

Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 0 Under review

Support CICS JSON Web Services calls

Customer is converting SOAP web services into Rest JSON web services to call CICS programs, need ZAPM Connect to support this application transformation.
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Lock Manager incompatibility between PI and IRLM

We are implementing IMSPLEX configuration for a customer (see diagram attached). Currently we have IMSP instance running on MVS2 LPAR and we are going to add IMSO (IMSP clone) into another new LPAR, using Shared Databases and Shared Queue. See det...
5 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (IMS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
6 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / All components 0 Under review

Allow cBAC to store a start request in the cBAC control file when CICS is down so that the start command can then execute when the CICS region comes up

We are currently considering converting from DADS to cBAC and are testing cBAC in a CICS test region. We did find a function that DADS can do but cBAC cannot do. We have many applications that do a start tran in DADS so that the start command is e...
11 months ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 1 Under review

Swagger ui front end portal

The ability to fully "brand" the Web UI
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Under review

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