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Storage occupancy as Average storage for history

The customer spoke about Storage occupancy for a task as a large number, but this is a function of the time as well as storage used. For history, this might be better represented as an Average storage used. This is not possible for an active task.
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Add certificate value to TCPIPS display

The customer would like us to show the Certificate for any TCPIPs that is using one. This will need a new attribute and as such a FixPack, but it is a manageable enhancement which would likely be accepted.
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Direct Commands to Resource Workspaces

Since TOM has command line, it would be beneficial to navigate to specific resource workspace for desired region (for example command “TCPIP CICD5501” would navigate to TCPIP Service Overview workspace for region CICD5501).
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Allow Bookmarks for region level workspaces

Currently TOM bookmarking feature are only available for the workspaces of the CICSplex level. The problem with region level workspace bookmarking is possibility that target workspace may have bookmarked region, which is offline, which would end u...
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Bookmarking capability for ICEs workspace

Make Interval Control Elements workspace KCPICES available for TOM bookmarking feature.
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Multi region Take Actions – Task History Pause/Resume

For RTEs with many CICS regions multi-region control like RLIM activation is beneficial. Other areas could use same approach - for example Task History Pause/Resume.
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Enhance Situations and Thresholds

Thresholds are a critical aspect of the product, directly impacting the effectiveness of warning and critical alerts. Ensuring that these values remain current and relevant requires ongoing review and adjustment and sometimes fluctuate several tim...
16 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Support parallel builds of sources with the same fileBuildRank

The language task sequentially builds al the sources by iterating over the files in SOURCE_LIST. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adffz/dbb/3.0.x?topic=index-task-language Actions Creates a language build list from the SOURCE_LIST by using the sources:...
10 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Introduce new extension, .spcbl, and potentially a new boolean variable. ${IS_SP}, to be used in DBB and other DevOps products for Cobol Stored Procedures.

Currently there is no easy way to determine if a Cobol program is a Cobol Batch program or a Cobol Stored Procedure. Since they have different compiler options, it is important to be able to indicate to DBB and other DevOps tools which one - Cobol...
3 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Improve DBB zBuilder error message if .gitconfig is not UTF-8

DBB zBuilder can fail with the following error if .gitconfig contains characters that are not UTF-8: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.ConfigInvalidException: Cannot read file /u/user1/.gitconfig at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileBasedConfig.load(FileBas...
5 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration