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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

Need support for MAc Tahoe operating system

We are upgrading our MAc's to Tahoe, and need IDz to support it.
28 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Needs more information

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

IDz17 Client on Linux

Historically, the IBM Developer for z/OS client was available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. However, as of version 17.0.2, IDz no longer supports Linux operating systems. This change was made without prior notice or official communication regardi...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Under review

IM logs readability

In Installation Manager logs coming with IDz 15 and 16, there's a file named installed.xml (in ProgramData\IBM\Installation Manager\) which is tied to an xsslt stylesheet installed.xsl Unfortunately this file is not readable in recent browsers, wh...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

How to apply a license with a P2 install

Such a great idea to use the P2 install. Thank you for that. But apart from the settings (idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IDZ-I-2222) it would be good to distribute the license automatically with install as well. (Or are they included in a worksp...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Planned for future release

JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration