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    IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

    Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
    24 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Concert for Z KPI for IMS

    Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
    27 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

    Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

    Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

    Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

    Provide a new system variable symbol to provice the current RMODE value

    Useful in macros to determine current RMODE at assembly time.
    9 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

    Flag RX instructions with index but no base register

    It has been a common malpractice since more than half a century not to use a base register but the index register in rx instructions, e.g. L Ra,100(Rb) instead of L Ra,100(,Rb). Historically, this implied some performance penalty (AFAIR), nowadays...
    over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

    COPYLIB DD for COPY code, SQLLIB DD for SQL INCLUDE

    Assembler copy code and macros are distinct types of elements that can be mutually dependent. Because they are read from the same SYSLIB DD they need to be assigned different names. A COPYLIB DD for copy code would support matching named macros an...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

    New extended mnemonics needed for branches/jumps following TMLL and friends

    New extended mnemonics are needed for "branch/jump [not]mixed" instructions to be used following the newer Test Under Mask instructions. The older TM instruction never sets CC=2, so the older branch/jump [not]mixed mnemonics (JM, JNM and similar) ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

    Change ASMA033I severity from 0 to 4

    Our product requires 241 separate assemblies. When reviewing a gen, we take closer looks at any assembly having a non-0 completion code. ASMA033I errors currently are SEV 0. That means that they get missed when a GEN is reviewed. If they were chan...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Future consideration

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