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Need HW crypto card encryption support from node.js

While working with State Farm, their z15 systems are all come with HW crypto card enabled. They require the encryption to go through and use HW crypto card when deploying to production system. Our product WMLz (Watson Machine Learning for z/OS) is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Future consideration

zD&T Webserver enhancement - Add a feature to capture a list of reply commands

The IPL of our LPAR copy require a manual intervention (through the console) to issue reply commands in order to complete the IPL successfully. Can there be an option in the zD&T Webserver to configure each Image with the option to capture cus...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

MTR command length needs to be increased

The current Activate , Deactivate & Monitor commands are limited to 159 characters. It would be nice if there was the ability to add additional linese
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for customer specific RACF groups to manage product administration

It is required as a security standard, that groups that are equal to schema of the tables cannot have any users connected to it, as by that, every user in the group becomes the owner of the table and can not only modify data but also drop the tabl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Improve SUBMIT trace and allow a tracker to have multiple submittors (instead of deploying multiple submit-only trackers

In this case through a combination of JCL DEBUG and SUBMIT traces it was seen that a tracker was overloaded (needed to submit over 7000 jobs in a 10-minute period and was only able to submit around 6300 jobs. It would have been easier to see if a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Custom Content-Type for Authorization Server Header

I am working with IBM Connect Enterprise Edition version 3.0.48. We would like a way to customize the content-type header that is being sent to get a JWT from our specified authorization server. The authorization server we are using is built as a ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Improve dark mode

It's useful for all developers that love dark mode (my self included) - it is also more energy-efficient! But the current state of your dark mode option is still missing a lot :( Some issues I have found with dark mode: 1. The text in the search-f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

require system specific connections for Monitor or IPL Completion

The SA dialogues allow you to specify Monitor for IPL Complete. This is an all or nothing setting for wherever the resource is connected to. Looking for a mechanism to either specify which system this monitoring is for or an documented externalize...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Suspend & resume timers from Netview commands

Using SETTIMER panel, we suspend & resume timers during DR excercise. But since there are many timers sometimes it's a tedious job. To facilitate the same via script, there seems to be no option to suspend & resume timer via commands. Only...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Business Planning activities into Forecasting and capacity planning

Provide the ability to incorporate Business Planning activities into Forecasting and capacity planning in general.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

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