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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
    18 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, ...
    22 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

    Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

    Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
    over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

    Bypass combined DBRC UNAUTH request for multiple AREAs

    /DBR DB and /DBR AREA commands can issue the DBRC UNAUTH request for a list of AREAs, the maximum number of AREAs in one list being 160. When the UNAUTH request is isseued for a list of AREAs, the RECON can be reserved for a long period of time. T...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    CREATE IMSCON TYPE(PORT) command need MbrName parameter capability

    I would like to activate a new PORT for IMS Connect using the CREATE Command. The issue is we have duplicate ports (different LPARS) in the same IMS PLEX. You can see below when I issue the following command that PORT 9000 is defined in 3 IMS Conn...
    over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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