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Add GFS/AFM as a supported TMS in Intellimagic Vision

Allow IBM IntelliMagic Vision to treat GFS/AFM as a supported TMS, providing operational, analytical, and historical views similar to those currently available for other tape management systems.
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

zWS should enforce at start up of the CONTROLLER that the JTARC and JTxx files are not MULTIVOLUME

The Planning and Installation Guide clearly states that the JT files cannot be multivolume. They can have multiple EXTENTS (up to 16) and the files can be DSNTYPE LARGE. However the code does not enforce this. so a customer can allocate the JT fil...
2 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

zSecure Audit - CIS-OS-4.3 shall consider DFP datatag value for classification

As the RACF DFP-Segment offers the capability to add a (custom) datatag of SENSITIVE, NONSENSITIVE or UNKNOWN (by default) the classification rule should take this also into account and not only the 'sensdsn' field. Hence it shall report a dataset...
2 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Submitted

IBM Ticket: TS022422318 - Request for Jakarta EE 10 / JCA Resource Adapter Support for IBM Host On-Demand (J2HOD3270 Resource Adapter)

IBM Ticket: TS022422318 Our organization relies on the IBM Host On-Demand (HOD) J2HOD connector and associated resource adapter (j2hod3270.rar) to establish enterprise resource connections from Java applications hosted on JBoss Application Server ...
3 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software Submitted

TSO Command Shell in IDz does not support "/" console commands – Interactive ISPF Gateway support

We are using the TSO Command Shell in IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) to execute TSO/ISPF commands remotely. After correcting our ISPF Gateway configuration (adding our custom procedure library to the sysproc= definition in ISPF.conf), standard TSO/I...
3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision - Requesting cost basis analysis to justify acquiring additional zIIP engines when high zIPP fallback to CP is observed

IntelliMagic Vision can identify zIIP eligible workload that falls back to CP when zIPP engines are not available. This Idea furthers this support to forecast when it would be beneficial for a customer to acquire additional zIIP engines when suffi...
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Duplicate. Please close

Duplicate.. please close
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Not under consideration

IntelliMagic Vision to support custom thresholds and alert when a threshold is breached combined with machine learning

The Idea here is that not all workloads are equal and there is often a case to have local custom thresholds to denote what is an exception. One case example could be CICS transaction response times. It would be great if we could categorize CICS tr...
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

IntelliMagic Vision to support customer annotations on dashboards

When researching a problem using IntelliMagic Vision it would be great if we could add our own local annotations such as threshold lines or comments on a dashboard that provide added meaning or clarity specific to a customer
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Universal filters for different charts and users

We need the ability to be able to save our filters and then use them in other charts and potentially share them with our other colleagues. For example: We create a filter to look at specific Disk PPRC Ports. We would like to be able to store that ...
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review