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    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

    Extend the Application Class concept to other applicable resource types, such as Application Groups and Monitor Resources.

    Q. Why is it useful? A. Reduces time and effort fulfilling "customer" (e.g. Support and Operation staff) requests. Q. Who would benefit from it? A. Both automation administrators and their customers: Administrators benefit by quickly inheriting pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

    There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Tertiary SDF Focal Point option

    Addition of Tertiary SDF focal point option under customization dialog NTW > SDF FOCAL POINT as well as under run time environment with new cglobal for example AOFTFP, as well as update of all impacted rexxes to support 3rd focal point, with or...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Allow use of CICS Security Discovery tooling without extracted Metadata

    When trying to use the CICS Security tools added to CICS Explorer, nothing can be achieved until an sdd file created by extracting data from RACF. If for any any reason such a file cannot be created, none of the tooling can be used. IMHO, the tool...
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    Launch CICS transactions from CICS Explorer / IDz

    Eclipse has built-in support for launching applications with normal execution or for debug (launch and debug configurations). It is possible today to setup debug profiles for CICS applications from Eclipse but starting the actualy transaction does...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    View SYSPARM data across multiple CICS regions simultaneously

    Allow CICS region SYSPARM data to be displayed and filtered, across multiple CICS regions, just as is available in the CPSM WUI.
    almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Not under consideration

    SDF Re-Sev/Re-Color of Existing Captured Message

    When using SDF as a monitoring platform, it would be beneficial to mark a captured message as "acknowledged" by changing the color of it on the screen without deleting it entirely, so that it can be followed up on or reports made later. At this ti...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

    Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    Display installed Enqueue Models

    Explorer is not showing installed Enqueue models. We can see all definitions, but need to use the WUI to see the installed definitions. We are trying to cut down on the need to switch from Explorer to WUI to work.
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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