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Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
1 day ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 0 Under review

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
2 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
21 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
6 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
16 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Submitted

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
18 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration