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IBM Service Management Unite

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SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
about 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

When configuring LDAP/SDBM remove the need for a static 'admin' ID with password and ROAUDIT access

An ideal situation would be if the initial LDAP bind and subsequent query to determine group membership could be conducted under each individual user's specific DN. Under LDAP/SDBM the following bind and search returns multiple LDAP attributes for...
3 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Under review

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
about 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU - Extension eezdocker.sh with command for restart UAA only

The eezdocker.sh script supports the most common commands to execute commands in the SMU container.With the Restart option, only the entire container can currently be restarted, which causes the application to be interrupted.So it would be desirab...
about 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU List job status widget

A widget that enables us to easily view and filter IZWS jobs and jobstreams as a list
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration