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    restricting the use of the EXTRACT option in IMS Problem Investigator

    IMS PI allows the extract of log records to other datasetsThis could mean that the user is able to extract private data from the log datasetsThere should be a way of restricting the EXTRACT option to only authorised users for example, users may be...
    26 days ago in IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Add option in IMSPI filter to say FIRST and then stop when you hit the first match

    When using a filter to go against IMS logs I am trying to find ONE (the first) of a log record type, e.g. 4505. But the filter reads all through the input trying to fill the page will ALL occurrences of 4505 log records. This can take a very long ...
    3 months ago in IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Automatic generate JCL to copy archive log (on tape) to readable archige log (on disk) for IMSPI (+TAW)

    Automatic generate JCL to copy archive log (on tape) to readable archige log (on disk) for IMSPI (+TAW)
    over 2 years ago in IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

    Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

    It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
    over 8 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Not under consideration

    zospt could support dataset input for SITPARMs

    The customer may have a huge number of SIT parms settings. They stores them in a specific dataset member, then set it to SYSIN in region jcl . Can we support dataset name in DFH_REGION_SITPARMS ?
    about 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide a image repository

    CEB would like zospt provide a image repository so that they could share the image across team.ps,They may have different zospt instance,as they may have different zosmf configuration
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide function to duplicate FOR

    CEB has a FOR. they'd like to provision cics region as well as the FOR, they would like to copy the files and define the files with new names in the new provisioned cics region so that the file could be opened in both existing FOR and new provisio...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide a method to deploy a image to an existing region

    CEB wonder if zospt could provide a method to apply a image to an existing region, even the region is provisioned by zospt, so that they could deploy new resources once the region is been provisioned.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    Zospt could reproduce the current existing CPSM together with the data

    BOC have several suite of CPSM, and would like zospt to quickly re-produce the exactly same one, including the topology and the data including the repository data and CSD data
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    Zospt could customize the created region JCL

    For now, zospt will provision a CICS region by build a customized JCL, however, some steplib like SDFJAUTH, and SCEERUN2 is not been required by BOC,they don't put them into the apf list, so that this will leads to a start up error.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

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