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Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

We found that E-Private SP230 Key0 storage growth was occurred in IIDR Classc Capture service. It was due to SMF type 30 EXCP information at DD name dynamic allocation. Our case was 100 thousand DD Dynamic allocation for IMS OLDS open. . Then, I'...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow the maintenance of Metadata Libraries in panel CCQPHLQ

I think it's normal if you added a row in a table that you may need to delete it or update it. For instance, I added few metadata libraries that I don't need them because I am not going to configure them. there is no option to delete them. Any one...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Tools Customizer library includes NEW and OLD BIND jobs

Tools Customizer library includes both the NEW and OLD BIND jobs.This is confusing to the customer, as it is not clear which BIND jobs need to be run.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support or warn of null (linklisted) DB2 STEPLIB and RUNLIB

DB2 Admin Tool customization via IBM TCz (IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS) requires the user to specify both the ‘DB2 load libraries’ and the ‘DB2 run library’ for each DB2 subsystem. There is no 'option' to specify: 1) A single set of libraries for...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Tools Customizer - Needs MGMTCLAS/STORCLAS RFE 67078

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=128536 IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS needs option to force generated datasets to MGMTCLAS/STORCLAS Use Case: This is for IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS (DB2 Tools). I was unab...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add additional retry logic when there is a tape volume that is unavailable

Add additional retry logic to better recover from an I/O error while reading a block from an IMS log when there is a tape volume that is unavailable during change stream connect processing. (1)SalesForce Case TS002782852 - DRISRP - Internal E...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Backup DATASTOR and DISCOVER into GDG; allow only one user to access TCz

1) Automate the backup of DATASTOR and DISCOVER to a GDG at every invocation of TCz. 2) Limit access to one UID to prevent multiple individuals stepping on each other's work.
about 6 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add user/usergroup creation and modification API in IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact

Customer is developing a process with web portal to manage the deep learning impact platform.Now they require restful API to support the web application development.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration