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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
25 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, ...
28 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

Improve quality of service by keeping client bound messages in the buffer until they are delivered

Right now client bound messages are dropped on the floor when a heartbeat is lost and the client reconnects. This causes serious issues for us, particularly in prod during heavy automation critical message traffic. We just had 2 prod job failures ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Future consideration

Encrypt the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards

IRS would like to ask if the TPF lab would consider encrypting the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards. Currently it is not-encrypted (its on the LAN, not the WAN, its local traffic only). But we’re being asked to verify tha...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

TOS MCS Proposal (DXC/IBM)

The proposal from IBM is to modify TOS to allow individual MCS definitions, rather than the current process which requires either all to utilize MCS or none. This enhancement would allow us to only define MCS for certain circumstances that make se...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

identify session in TOS API log items

Since the TOS workstation API log contains logging for multiple session/server connections it would be helpful if the log items would contain information that would identify the session/server like TAs and server IP addresses.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Is a defect

TOS Gui: add ability to save and restore sessions and screen locations.

Everytime a user opens the TOS Gui, they have to open and arrange all of their desired sessions. This is time consuming and repetitive, especially in a 7x24 environment when tpf operators start their shift. Enhance the TOS Gui to be able to save o...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration