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Stream DC Queue Manager Trace report in JSON format to Analytics platform

It would be great to get the DC Queue Manager Trace report directly in an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to send Transaction Transit list report. The idea would be to stream the input messages (in a consolidated format) of ...
8 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Stream Deadlock reports in JSON format to Analytics platform

As of now, there is no way to stream deadlock reports in JSON to an analytics platform with IMS Performance Analyzer. It would be great to get the deadlock reports directly streamed to an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to s...
8 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Use colon between ISO time fields instead of period

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. Some data analytics platforms had issues ingesting that field as-is due to the period '.' between hh, mm and ss. These platforms expect colon between ...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

No hyphen between date and time in ISO time fields in CSV output

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. The hyphen between the date and time caused issues ingesting the field as-is into some analytics engines. We're asking for an option to be able to rem...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide SMF support for all IMS PA (streaming) services

It will make it safer to provide the possibility for (all) IMS PA reports to use SMF, both from an availability and security perspective, By having CDP (or other product) collect the data from SMF and pass it to the correct subscriber, will only n...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon ATF Trace DDL - Column Names

IMS PA comes with Db2 DDL to use for loading Omegamon IMS ATF records, but the column names are very cryptic. Would be good to have more user friendly column names for easier understanding.
6 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration