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SQL Database Backup via Vision Automator

Please add the option to schedule an automatic SQL Database backup on the SQL server from the Vision Automator server.
11 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Detecting inoperable subsystem to be decommissioned ( middleware CICS , DB2 , MQ , IMS )

In Health Exceptions, enable a "bottom line" parameter , in opposite to threshold, to filter out low or no activity in metrics indicators like paging , CPU consuming and virtual memory usage. If this behavior persists in a time period is a candida...
4 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 3 Under review

Disambiguate DB2 Members Across Sysplexes in Health Insights Filters

Current Challenge: IntelliMagic DB2 Health Insights, Sections (Health Exceptions / Db2 ) report (e.g., reports like BP Health, GBP Health, etc.) currently do not identify the Sysplex/System from which a Db2 Data Sharing Group or standalone Db2 mem...
5 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 4 Future consideration

IntelliMagic for z/OS Storage / DSS Replication / Add a group nickname to identify specific Link-IDs of a DSS

I would like to have the option, to set a group nickname in the sharedcfg.txt for the replication links of each DSS. This would make the replication behaviour more transparent, because you see, which Link-IDs belong together for a specific replica...
4 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Change decimal and thousands separators

For us in BE the standard decimal separator character is "," and for thousands it's "." As it is the other way around in IntelliMagic, it makes it more difficult for us to import exported csv data to excel. It would be very useful as this is the d...
7 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Console / Dashboard for Vision Automator Health

Systems Admin, and Intellimagic Admin. It would be great if the windows components that comprise the vision automator would come packaged with a 'console'. Currently when I want to check status of activities, I need to open my current days log fil...
4 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Under review

Allow selective EXPORT of reports from a Dashboard

Currently there is no ability in a Dashboard to select reports(s) that are to be EXPORTed. It is either an all or nothing approach. I have built a dashboard that has 28 reports and would like to only 4 of these reports via a Scheduled Export to ou...
5 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Tape Cache Usage broken down by reads and writes displayed as a percent

Currently, IntelliMagic provides a report that shows the total number or writes and the total number of reads. The numbers themselves aren't as important to the client as the percentage of reads or percentage of writes that this activity represent...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration