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Issue another message if job is Auto Recvered - EQQE036I replaced by EQQE036A

Issue another message if job is Auto Recvered - EQQE036I replaced by EQQE036A EQQE036I message replaced if auto recovery is in job and error code tested for is in play. EQQE036I should only be issued when the job ends in error queue and will not b...
8 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Enable ZOAU to support PDSE Member Generations

Please enable all ZOAU PDS processing to support PDSE Member Generations. Member Generations have been available since PDSE Version 2 was released over a decade ago and more sites are starting to take advantage of them. Using ZOAU should work and ...
4 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

CSM supports Metro Mirror with Site 4 replication, can GDPS support this configuration, too?

According to DORA regulation, it is possible to have a 2-region infrastructure with the possibility to have a synchronous copy between them, an MTMM 4-Site. This gives one the chance to do a region switch with no disruption to the customers. Nowad...
29 days ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Statistics for usage of models in autoinstalls

Like other interesting resource parameters, keep a running tab of the usage of terminal models and program models, and report them in their own identifiers as SMF 110(2) records. This can help in housekeeping, and reduce the chances of trying to c...
11 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

ETT Trigger Feature

A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
18 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Create tape datasets from Python API to ZOAU

In zOS there are two types of hardware datasets, the datasets that exist on Direct Access Devices (DISKs) and datasets that exist on TAPES. Data in datasets can be too large to be housed on DISKs, so the datasets are put on Tapes so that they don'...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add an option to use IBGENER to copy files using DCP

To use IBGENER to copy some files that is having problem using the regular DCP command, good example is the SYSDEBUG/SIDEFILE output from PLI or Cobol compiler to use with File Manager or Debugger.
24 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Modify command to display parms of running controller

Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
25 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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