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Omegamon enhancements

Add “OR” logic for View By “HLQ” (both “Dataset” and “All Datasets”); Please update the KB/MB/GB conversion for summarization (1000 vs 1024). Add a parameter in the Configuration Manager to change this for data collection. Add KB (Kilobytes) field...
5 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Extension of the collection formula limit for ITM Distributed and ITMz

We are unable to create a history collection with a filter for the attribute group KS3_DASD_SUMM, for example. The plain collection for KS3_DASD_SUMM, with no filters added, is already 952 characters long, due to so many columns in it. This leaves...
9 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

VSAM dataset & logstream ID report

Using D LOGGER, we can get the logstreams defined on the system, but to get information about which VSAM dataset is defined with a logstream ID, there is no such reporting. To get this info, only option is to IDCAMS LISTCAT and get the logstream I...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

IDz: Copy/Paste only works in one direction

e want to use copy and paste while working with the project view and the remote system explorer. We tried it in both directions but only the way from the project explorer to the host worked. There is a workaround with drag and drop but I wonder wh...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer MFA Support for zOS Connections outside RSE

Currently only zOS RSE connections include MFA support. We currently use zOS FTP, zOS Connect, etc. Connections.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add warning when exporting RSE filters leads to not export all filters

When you export filters for a z/OS connection in Remote Systems Explorer, there must be a warning, if this doesn't lead to export all filters.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

option to switch to Superuser mode

Explorer for z/OS needs an option to switch to Superuser mode (SU).
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists