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    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

    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

    E3270UI - HUB DISPLAY PANEL needs to show ALL HUBS that are configured in the environment and ability switch between

    Currently we have 2 hubs and 2 teps that we need to be able to switch between for e3270ui Queries... and yet we currently only show the PRIMAY HUB.. No Secondary HUB is displayed and this used to be available in prior releases...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

    Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
    29 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 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...
    6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain current situation status (Sampled and Pure) querying End Point api/v1/situations/status

    Currently, the Rest API is capable of bringing all historical data for all situations, Sampled and Pure. Currently, querying End Point api/v1/situations/status, we get data only about alerts generated by Sampled Situations We’d like to get data al...
    7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
    about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

    Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

    Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

    Adding UID/GID Parameter in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR path

    Hello Team, I would like UID/GID parameter to be added in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR. With each GENERATE UID gets updated to the TSO ID who runs the GENERATE. This is to address the case opened with IBM L2 support TS020349894.
    6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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