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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
    19 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    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, ...
    22 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

    COMMIT does not free up the locks owned by all DB2 threads

    We have a program with VSAM files migrated to DB2 via CICS VSAM Transparency. These files are read & updated each with their own unique DIM per file. The mainline program is calling a new dynamic subroutine which handles all of the commits by ...
    almost 10 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    improving the data cleansing/testing capabilities for CICS VT

    It would be helpful if DMF could provide more information about differences in data when it finds them. When running against large files in batch for testing. When the records are long, dumping 32 bytes of data before and after the error is not en...
    over 10 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the Skip parameter to 8 positions in the VIDTRCEP file

    Currently, the skip parameter is limited to a maximum value of 999999 (six digits). Customers need to trace end-of-file problems that occur at a location greater than 999,999 records. One customer has 6.5 million rows and another customer has 8.5 ...
    almost 14 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    CICS VSAM Transparency needs to issue status messages when VTMI actions start or stop CICSVT

    CICS VSAM Transparency also needs to issue status messages when VTMM actions change a file status. CICS VT exit status should be displayed -- similar to the messages that CICS IA issues on status changes CICS VT file status should be displayed whe...
    almost 14 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Allow VT to reference Alliases

    Customer programs reference table aliases rather than base tables. CICS VT should provide a mechanism to work with DB2 alias names as well as base table names.
    almost 14 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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