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zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
15 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Planned for future release

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

In Database Recovery Facilitate provide a method to show the percentage of the recovery process

When running recoveries, especially large scale recoveries such as disaster recovery, DBAs are asked to provide an estimate of when the recovery will be completed. It would be helpful to have some sort of means to see what percentage of the entire...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Delivered

In IMS Recovery Expert, if there is no quiet time, show least busy times.

Currently, IMS Recovery Expert only shows quiet times when the database does not have any inflight Units of Work. When looking at recovery scenarios with Cyber Vault situations, we may have periods of time that we will need to recover to where the...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IMS database Usage using load modules as inputs

In the current IMS database Usage function, it is showing the database's name and the structure of the segments used in a given Cobol program. However, the users run this function with a load module as an input. I would like to see the IMS databas...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration

RTMC file ID support

Problem statement: Real-time runtime metrics collection support reports finds and file counts. But you can't tell which files are being accessed by a message, which files are being accessed more/less over time on the system or by a specific messag...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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