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Add DD statement to provide member selection in File Manager Batch.

Currently, the member selection is within the SYSIN DD statement in a File Manager batch. It will be more usable if the member selection can be provided via a DD statement in the JCL. Benefit of this change is when the members list is created dyna...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Limit the speed and heap memory usage of the CDP batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2

When using batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2, it runs too fast which the subscriber like kafka can not process the records at the same speed, then HBOJBCO2 will cause flood the CDP dsta streamer to store the smf records into memory and use out of ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

GDPS - DASD Config to Allow FC Sessions

Hello IBM,In case TS003773513 we were testing the GDPS Metro 4.1 Preserve Mirror Tool and came across a problem which we had never seen with GDPS/PPRC 3.14 and its version of the PMT. The IBM case above stated that with 4.1 the PMT (which is now i...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Command Filtering on menu

- IMPLEMENTS 2 NEW COMMANDS FROM MENU: 'SS' - SHOW SESSION ID 'SD' - SHOW SESSION DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES: - 'SS/SD ACT' WILL DISPLAY ONLY ACTIVE SESSIONS - 'SS/SD ALL' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS - 'SS CICS*' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS WITH SESSION ID ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

Provide Round Robbin fashion of IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions for WAS z/OS servers running CTG local

We need high availability for round robin IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions from WebSphere z/OS application servers running CTG in local mode.Similar feature is offered by DFHCXURM exit where EXCI connetions can be routed to multip...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Request new SHBODEFS member like HBOUAKZ8, with new fields for newer Z machines like z14, z15 and z16.

IBM cannot change HBOUAKZ8 to add new counters introduced by z14 and later machines. The HBOUAKZ8 job is used to write Db2 UNLOAD file which will be subsequently load to Db2 tables. It has to be consistent with the Db2 schema set in the IZPCA/TDS ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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