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    New Date Banner Variables

    We need to use dates in Banners with the formats DD/MM/YY / DD/MM/YYYY and YY/MM/DD / YYYY/MM/DD in order to keep the same output format that exists in the actual software.MM/DD/YY & MM/DD/YYY are not an usual format date used for both Clients...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

    Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    ITOM parallel sysplex high availability

    Provide capability for ITOM capture proc to run on any system in the sysplex without manual updates to parms
    about 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

    * BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

    Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

    When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
    over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

    Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

    Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
    over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

    DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Support multiple versions of DB2 bind

    When we upgrade/apply mainteance to TOM, sometimes it requires running DB2 bind and backout is to rebind with old packages. It'll be helpful if TOM can support multiple versions of DB2 bind so we can run different maintenance levels with just STEP...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Thread Safety for PL/I programs with CICS IA

    For PL/I programs compiled with RENT option, CICS IA cannot correctly attribute the EXEC CICS commands to the actual program. In fact, CICS IA attributes all EXEC CICS commands to program CEEEV003. This limitation should be relieved.
    over 8 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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