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Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV command enhancement

System: Product DFSMShsm on z/OS 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4Actor: System programmer needing new feature We support a big ERP business (CIO Quote 2 Cash iERP client) and as for our backup strategy we use IBM Flashcopy combined with IBM DB2 Backup system utili...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

In a GDPS MGM TOPOLOGY the KG/KR analyzes if the tertiary disks are ONLINE by any system, before accepting the GDASD START SECONDARY RESTART command.

After a recovery simulation test on the B.RS1 disks (tertiary disk in Region B), we had problems in the synchronization process of the GM copy (GDASD START SECONDARY RESTART command) when having some disks ONLINE from an emergency system (it was u...
11 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support $ as first Charakter for variables when using WAPL

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/z-workload-scheduler-101-extends-orchestration-capabilities-managed-file-transfer-enhances-operational-experience-ai-streamlines-workflows-definition-renewed-workload-designer?region=US ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
4 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Changing variable substitution for sending emails when an alert condition occurs by the controller task to match the same behavior as job tailoring works

As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to various groups within the company, it is beneficial to minimize the variations in rules for variable substitution for users. Therefor...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration