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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

Legthen the syslog receiver address.

We have an automatically generated DNS scheme that creates Domain Names longer than the allowed field in the Unix Syslog Receiver address(es) area. It is possible others may have multiple IP addresses or long names as well, thus the current limita...
2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Planned for future release

Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

New alert when adding/removing user or group on general resource

It is requested by our Auditor to implement the rule.
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

new zSecure Alert for SENSITIVITY=Site-Res-U (and also Site-Res-R for Read)

Member SENSRSRC shows 3 example for sensitive resources. Site-Dsn-R is covered by Alert 1212 (Access>=READ on site sensitive data set) Site-Dsn-U is covered by Alert 1213 (Access>=UPDATE on site sensitive data set) Site-Res-U is not yet cove...
8 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration