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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

Enhance SuperC (ISRSUPC) to Add Option to Suppress Report Headers

Using SuperC in Batch (ISRSUPC) the ability to suppress the report headers would be helpful for applications that only need the report data.
about 1 year ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Support JXH and JXLE for exit t the beginning of a loop

Support JXH and JXLE for, e.g., ASMEXIT, DO WHILE, DOEXIT, IF, for testing loop termination at the beginning.
about 1 year ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

Some SuperC options should cater for longer lines

A number of SuperC compare options are currently rejected for datasets with an LRECL > 256: ISRS013W CERTAIN "DO NOT PROCESS" OPTIONS ARE REJECTED DUE TO LI NE LENGTHS > 256. OPTIONS RESERVED FOR PROGRAM SOURCE DATA. ISRS016W MOVE LINE DETEC...
almost 5 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Identify SIIS issue before moving to z13 / z14

It is known that Assembler code using "Store into Instruction Stream" (SIIS) does not perform as well starting on z13 hardware due to a change in cache structure. It would be beneficial to have an option in the HLASM Toolkit to identify code which...
over 6 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Provide SPM ITERATE-like analogue with conditions, similar to LEAVE/DOEXIT

An analogous macro to ITERATE with conditions, similar to DOEXIT & ASMLEAVE, would be very helpful to write more understandable code and take advantage of internal z Systems pipelining, instruction prefetch, and branch prediction. (Note: I hav...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration