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64 Bit Addressing for Full Function DB Buffer Pools

Exploitation of 64 bit address space for Full Function DB for both OSAM and VSAM buffer pools (similar to current DB2's capabiltities).
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 4 Not under consideration

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

64 Bit Addressing for Full Function DB Buffer Pools

Exploitation of 64 bit address space for Full Function DB for both OSAM and VSAM buffer pools (similar to current DB2's capabiltities).
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
almost 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated ISPF Client Gateway configuration for DBB

Today, DBB's API for TSOExec and ISPFExec use the default system wide ISPF Client Gateway configuration. When the build framework has specific requirements on the configuration, such as the Db2 library on the STEPLIB or using the interactive gatew...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add customer internal software product ids via a user field

Software products are assigned product ids by the vendors. As part of our firm's internal processes, we assign resource ids to vendor software and would like to be able to add our internal software product ids via some sort of custom field somewhe...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Not under consideration

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is that possible to shift Secondary keyboard display from vertically to bottom on screen like v14x ?

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is that possible to shift Secondary keyboard display from vertically to bottom on screen like v14x ?
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

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