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Update GETPW to support PASS Phrase

As we migrate away from password and to Pass Phrase, it would be a requirement that IBM support Pass Phrase for the NETVIEW GETPW function.
17 days ago in IBM Z NetView 2 Submitted

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
4 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Make the CICS_FIELD procedure automated to include new OFFSETs to the CICS-FIELD table

When a CICS new Release is released by IBM, the IZPCA users have to update the CICS_FIELD Table executing a manual process. This is an error prone procedure; thus, we suggest the IZPCA development to adjust it to a safer process to be executed by ...
13 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Submitted

SIT Parm to set USER IDLE timeout value which can work with both RACF and AFC2 prodcuts

With the current process, we need to follow two separate lengthy processes(RACF and ACF2) to lock/logoff the user session after a specific amount IDLE time. It would be very helpful if IBM can provide a SIT Parm like below to control the timeout v...
about 9 hours ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

can feature like FLIP command be introduced in file manager

With FLIP functionality we can easily inverse our selection.you can refer you can see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=commands-flipreverse-exclude-status-lines (for z/OS itself) for illustration
about 20 hours ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enhancement to the PL/I jsonGetValue built-in function to add a selector option to jsonGetValue which would allow specifying a condition for selecting an array element. The function would then only copy those elements that satisfy the condition.

For example, given the JSON document below, it would be great to specify we only want the item with "TRAINING": "Y" copied over to the PL/I structure. JSON_DOCUMENT: { "PASSES": 3, "DATA": [ { "NAME": "Mather", "ELEVATION": 12100, "TRAINING": "Y" ...
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Include SMF 98 subtype 1 in SMF Record Definition available

SMF 98 subtype 1 contains information about spin locks. This could help identify potential situations to reduce CPU Consuption that could be avoided
27 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Submitted

Report of zCentric Agents

Ability to run a report from z Workload Scheduler that produces a list of zCentric agent details including version, destination details and OS. This is helpful for version control and monitoring.
5 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Support product enablement and disablement via IFAPRDxx for IMS

In our environment we use IMS and MQ only on specific LPARs. If we could disable them on the LPAR we are not licensed we could avoid licensing issues in case of a user error.
6 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Submitted

Allow UKO to generate secure HMAC keys

UKO Customers who would like to migrate from legacy to enhanced passtickets would benefit from using UKO to generate HMAC keys for passticket usage
about 1 month ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

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