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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

Enhance LIMIT parm in the CM report

When we ran CM report job(CCVBMAIN), the region went SOS. We then added the LIMIT parm but it only work if we have less number of CM records. Need a solution that CM should manage the CICS region memory and total number of CM records and finally g...
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Restricting Package creator NOT to approve the same package

We want to restrict the creator of the CM package to approve his own package. This is defeating the purpose of approver option.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

CM Server to CM Server Connectivity

Having CM Server to CM Server connectivity to exchange the data(in XML or other formats) instead of shipping the data between CM servers manually using FTP and writing CM EXITS
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Flat file input for RANA exit instead of recompile process

Request to allow RANA exit to read a flat file as input and perform actions instead of modifying the EXIT each time with changes and recompiling it.
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow user data field for every RDO entry

We currently use our internal application group names associated with change and incident management in CATS APLid, as we are doing POC with CICS CM, we really want a user data field in CM so we can provide flexibility to our user/developer commun...
about 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration