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Omegamon USS metrics without root privileges

The Omegamon TEMS STC requires USS root privileges to gather z/OS UNIX metrics.Giving root privileges to any service is an unnecessary security risk.To solve this security issue, Omegamon could use UNIXPRIV or another form of security delegation t...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhance CBAC CBKCLINK program with CICSPLEX support

A time-critical job, currently reliant on an in-house program using EXEC CPSM PERFORM for file operations, cannot be migrated to CBAC CBKCLINK due to lacks of CICSPLEX support. When a PLEX LPAR restarts after maintenance, the current setup does no...
26 days ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 1 Under review

Enhance getmain/freemain of CBKCLINK program to avoid RLED abend

Request IBM to review and enhance the CBKCLINK program to ensure proper handling of GETMAIN and FREEMAIN operations. Currently, the program does not release memory properly with FREEMAIN when called multiple times, leading to excessive memory allo...
26 days ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Reduce the repetitive definitions required to specify port pools.

Currently, transport pools are defined by each type of agent Kpp_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_POOL_OPTIONS. This wastes the admin's time by having to specify the parameter for each agent. Additionally it increases the chance for errors by requiring the pool to...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

UI-Optimization: various refresh and customize inconveniences (PLAz-Tool)

Product Code 5698-LDA - “Auto Refresh“ after editing and closing an event would make working much easierIf the column width cannot be changed, please DO NOT implement our auto-refresh requirement. After the refresh, the temporarily changed column ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Paused Until workflow improvement (PLAz tool)

Product Code 5698-LDA To be implemented from the perspective of our SMEs (Deyan Rashev, Yanko Pavlov): Description: The current Paused Until implementation is too error prone and leads to much more work as usually necessary. We need to have automa...
4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration