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IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
20 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Group List Support in DSSGROUP

It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
23 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
23 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

CTG6421W HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0

When CTG, gets 'CTG6421W ... HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0", due to backend Target CICS Regions being recycled; CTG to provide a corresponding message that after CICS Target region restarts, a corresponding message indicating the CTG Gateway reco...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Under review

closetimeout statistics in CTG runtime and explorer

provide statistics on count of tasks rolled back by closetimeout=0 or other N value. Interval and Life of Gateway and recorded in SMF.
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Need load balancing algorithms as round Robbin on IPIC connections to multiple CICS regions working with CICS TG for Multiplatforms in local mode on WAS AIX

We require load balancing using the round-robin algorithm for IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS TXSeries regions from WebSphere AIX application servers, leveraging CTG in local mode. A similar request was submitted under idea CTG-I-112 on ...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic connection logging ON / OFF

Ability to dynamcally turn on/off connection logging, with Modify Command or Explorer. May want to turn on to monitor; then turn off, without modifying .ini file and bouncing the CTG. connectionlogging=on|off An .ini parm change requires a recycle...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration