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Provide a new GDPS option to optionally disable SNMP interface checking

We were told by IBM that the SNMP interface from GDPS to the Disk subsystem was not mandatory, and that the GDPS monitors provide sufficient alerting in detecting disk related issues. Therefore we did not setup the SNMP trapping of alerts from the...
1 minute ago in GDPS Submitted

Suppress GDPS alerting for inactive sessions in BID(YES) GM2SITE

We recently configured additional KG & KR domains on our GDPS GM2SITE to support the BID(YES) feature code. Alerts are constantly being produced (WTO's and SDF) for STOPPED sessions on the inactive GDPS pair of domains, and DISK MIRROR shows N...
20 minutes ago in GDPS Submitted

Please enable batch transfer of logs for machine learning.

Our customer requires batch transfer as a standard feature when transferring log data from z/OS to IBM Concert for Z.
29 minutes ago in IBM Z Concert for Z Submitted

Instead of needing to add error messages in server.xml to be converted to WTOs that SAOS390 can pick-up, issue error messages as a WTO.

Allows the system programmer to not have to guess or administer server.xml to produce error message WTOs. Error WTOs are written to SYSLOG and SA/OS390 can take action easily.
about 1 hour ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

ITOM and InfoPrint Integration

Integrating ITOM and InfoPrint would be useful for easily printing and emailing of reports.  Currently, we need to add manual steps to get the two products to communicate and that method is prone to errors. This would be very useful for users...
about 22 hours ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Submitted

Please add FTP SMF data to intellimagic - we would find it useful to view ftp data transfer completions, datasets and details that are not easily obtainable without smf reporting

Our team would use this to identify dataset transfers and completions during troubleshooting calls and analyzation of ftp processing on our systems. 
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

We would like to see Sterling Connect Direct smf data in intellimagic. it would be useful specifically for monitoring High Water marks across multiple systems in conjunction with licensing agreements, along with other reporting

We could run high water mark reports insuring we are not exceeding license agreements.  We could also run daily reports on process, connectivity and system utilization   
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IGZ0201W message to be routed also to the consoles

Currently the IGZ0201W message is issued only to job SYSOUT. We want this message to be routed also to the consoles. Please give high priority as the job is looping due to file attributes mismatch. Kind regards Konstantinos
1 day ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Submitted

Wazi deploy to impersonate current SCM ids

This is needed for all uss based deployments using wazi deploy where the current SCM id holds the authority
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Submitted

zCX containers status monitoring in Omegamon e3270ui and situations

Currently we can't monitor zCX containers status in Omegamon, so don't know if containers goes for example into unhealthy state. Idea is to extract the container status from the docker ps command and show that status in Omegamon and create situati...
2 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Submitted

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