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The TS6.1 new msg of "DFHSJ0207 11/21/2025 15:44:14 CICTxxxx JVMSERVER JVMOSGI1 is running Java version 17.0.13." only goes to TDQ; would be easier to see on the CICS JESLOG.

It would be nice to be able to browse the CICS region's JESLOG and immediately see the DFHSJ0207 message showing the JAVA level that each JVM is using. Our Operations staff implements 95% of our CICS changes and know how to verify things in the CI...
14 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Create a New SMF type for Named Counter Server. The counters are requested via Db2 stored procedures, REST API, Batch jobs and CICS transactions.Our applications use DFHNCTR which is called via the 'CICS call interface ' and so the SMF 110 records are not inscope

From time to time we have applications that use the named counter excessively resulting in the CF structure going into monopolization mode. We would like to easily identify these applications. We are concerned about over head in doing this so woul...
17 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

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

Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

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

Add SYSPLEX name to CP/SM resource table CICSRGN

MVSSYSNAME and MVSSYSID are already there. Also make available in CICS Explorer and CPSM rest api
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Have the ability to control the maximum number of concurrent KAFKA messages to be processed

We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic. After an outage, 100s of Kafka messages are flooding into CICS to be processed at the same time. This has the potential to cause all sort of issues for this servic...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review