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My ideas: IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm

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Update the product to use SMF Exit IEFU86

The SMF Exits that this product uses (IEFU83 & IEFU84) were discontinued in our environment in favor of the updated SMF Exit IEFU86. We can't go back to the old Exits and would need the product to be updated to use the IEFU86 Exit for collecti...

Enable support for various psuedo-volumes in conversion assist tool

The conversion assist feature of tivoli advanced reporting fails to correctly identify various psuedo volume options supported by competitive solutions. As a result it fails to properly categorize archive and backup instances resulting in conversi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Functionality already exists

zOS DFSMS Naviquest: Include Last Dataset Update Date/Time Field

Hi, Our 3M Environment reached an stage where we urgently requires Information on the z/OS Datasets Last Update and unfortunately it is not currently provided. The closest IBM provides is LREF+CHGID and which is actually False Information.- The CH...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

Provide support for ON DEMAND Migration

Currently, product has no support for ON DEMAND MIGRATION. DFSMShsm has a new feature that Advanced Reporting has no support for reporting on. Want to be able to differentiate between on demand, primary or secondary Space management.

Place IGD01013I message ine the joblog for job running the IXCMIAPU utility.

Please consider moving a copy of the IGD01013I message to JOBLOG of a batch job using the IXCMIAPU utility for creating log streams instead of only placing it in the SYSLOG.
about 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

Adv Reporting and Management for HSM V2R4

We will be opening a new Rocket Track Enhancement to modify the product code to support multi-volume collection datasets.
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Functionality already exists

request support for firefox up version 18 for ilmt

provide support for tivoli ilmt gui install
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration