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Modifying IMS Log archives so if a log is already archived, it returns with RC=04 instead of RC=08

As per Case # TS022792351. Whenever the following message is displayed:DSP0270I ONLINE LOG ALREADY ARCHIVED SSID=IMSD DDNAME=DFSOLPnn It currently ends with RC=08 which generally means something is wrong. In this case, it is not, and should be a R...
about 1 hour ago in IMS System Services / General System Submitted

With Watson AI incorporated into Intellimagic we would like the following two scenarios included in comparative analysis and root cause analysis after a major mainframe incident

Why is it Useful? Whenever we have major Mainframe Incidents so many teams are researching, reporting and analyzing their siloed areas with their own reporting, methods and toolsets. Time to complete the reporting and analysis takes time and when ...
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances to allow customers to use their existing IBM Z virtualization infrastructure to rapidly create, manage, and deprovision isolated development and testing environments. This capa...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Enable IBM Test Accelerator for Z On-Demand Environments Support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on IBM Z

This enhancement would allow customers to centrally administer TAZ ODE environments through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on Z, simplifying operations, improving infrastructure utilization, and reducing total cost of ownership by lever...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Add Native Server-Managed Favorites to ITOM Web Viewer for Easy Report Retrieval

Add a first-class, server-managed Favorites capability to ITOM Web Viewer so users can open recurring daily, month-end, analyst-indexed, exception, and high-value operational reports with the same speed and consistency they rely on today in curren...
3 days ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Submitted

AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis for IBM Z Decision Support

I propose adding an AI-Powered Cross-Workload Dependency and Business Impact Analysis capability to IBM Z Decision Support to help organizations gain deeper visibility into relationships between IBM Z workloads, applications, system resources, and...
3 days ago in IBM Z Decision Support Submitted

Implement missing eclipse plugin features in VSCode plugin

Today APA VSCode provides only PDF format report, which is sometimes hard to follow from user perspective. Implement similar interactive gui like report like Eclipse plugin has.
3 days ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS Submitted

Implement functionalities in VSCode extension

Implement missing functionalities as File Manager eclipse plugin has in VSCode, ex: Copy File Load module info Export to excel by copy
3 days ago in File Manager for z/OS Submitted

Allow High Performance Image Copy to use the IMS Catalog Staging Directory

Issue: The inability for HPIC to utilize the staging directory is costing us up to 45 minutes of additional outage time. Scenario: With BMC, when we added new areas to the end of a sequential database, we were able to perform the following tasks p...
3 days ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

Enhance IMS HP Image Copy by expanding history reporting capabilities

TSYS would like IBM to consider updating the IMS HP Image Copy utility by capturing additional history data at run time. We hope that additional functionality will be added to the utility that would allow it to produce the 200-byte history records...
4 days ago in IMS High Performance Image Copy for z/OS  / Product functionality Submitted

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