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    Allow users to purge output in held in IOM using only interfaces, ISPF etc

    First JES provides this ability so does SDSF. It is needed. If a programmer has an IOM archive that lasts for 14 days (say), and he generates a lot of dumps for some reason, there is no way for him to delete those unwanted dumps. Today he must wai...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Under review

    Show running system info on ITOM panel

    We would like to see which system the job/task is running from ITOM panel, this is helpful for started task that has the same name across all systems in the sysplex, so we can see from the archive list panel where the task is running before archiv...
    2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    New Date Banner Variables

    We need to use dates in Banners with the formats DD/MM/YY / DD/MM/YYYY and YY/MM/DD / YYYY/MM/DD in order to keep the same output format that exists in the actual software.MM/DD/YY & MM/DD/YYY are not an usual format date used for both Clients...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

    Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    ITOM parallel sysplex high availability

    Provide capability for ITOM capture proc to run on any system in the sysplex without manual updates to parms
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Increase ITOMWeb the 40 character limitation to 100 characters in the password dialog box.

    RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases and allowing ITOMweb to match this limit aligns them with this RACF limitation. This would allow users to have a secure password / passphrase created and used by all of our IBM products.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

    Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

    Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Override EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS at the report level

    We would like the capability of defining a different "from" email address for certain reports emailed by Output Manager, rather than using the address that is defined in policy for "EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS".Currently specified is the email address of t...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Print Report and then have option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email

    Hi Team, Currently already generated report print option has to mention DEST, but we are looking for option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email which will help customers receiveing email instead of sending to DEST Printer. Pleaes co...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

    DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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