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Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Support in File Manager IMS for DBD Partition Definitions

File Manager IMS (FM/IMS) can process data stored in HALDBs (High Availability Large Databases) and DEDBs (Fast Path Data Entry Databases). For Large IMS Full Function HDAM, HIDAM and INDEX Databases we use for Partitioning the BMC PDF tool (DBD P...
almost 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Screen size in the Remote Connection Emulator

In the new IDz ver 16, you cannot have a screen size of 62x160 in the Remote Connection Emulator. This is something we use and would be great to have.
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Functionality already exists

Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Provide AT-TLS Support for EKMF Web

A recent pen test by IBM XForce performed on our z/OS systems identified a vulnerability where the TCP port used by EKMF was not using https. In attempting to remediate this condition it was discovered that secure https browser access to EKMF-Web ...
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to specify MSGCLASS for Subordinate Address Spaces

When running a Database Recover Facility batch job (FRXSDR00) to recover an IMS Database, subordinate address spaces are spawned. Would like a way to specify the MSGCLASS of those subordinate address spaces.
about 2 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

Extend COPY-to-PDS API to link to buildFile

Today, the Transfer.groovy script of zAppBuild allows us to push non-buildable files through the pipeline. All MVSExec execute records are showing a relative file path of the repository based on the build file reference. It would be consistent, if...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

Add filtering to Statistic Reports

I believe it would be useful to add filters to both List and Summary Statistics report. For example, report on a given transaction when looking at transaction stats. Or only report transactions that have an ATTACH>0. For file stats it could be ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists

add control panel to the IZOA Splunk app, where the user can specify index configuration to do an out-of-the-box install

The Splunk IZOA app is made for a single instance Splunk and if you want to roll it out on a cluster you always have to make adjustments. The IZOA Splunk app needs a lot of indexes, but each customer will have their own naming conventions, retenti...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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