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Add the monitoring screen for colored status in SMU

Our customer wants to the monitoring screen with SMU so that the status of the resource can be seen in color.But there is no way to display all colored status. Please add the function to identify as the colored fields or character for the all kind...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 2 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Save the File Manager Compare parameter selections in the user's IDZ Workspace

The File Manager Compare feature provides the user with many parameter options to define the exact comparison that he wishes to perform between the two data-sets.The File Manager ISPF interface saves the user's current selection in the user's TSO ...
almost 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add "Switch Old/New Resource" button to Compare Wizard in File Manager IDZ plugin

On the "Compare Wizard / Basic Settings" window one data-set name appears as the Old Resource and the second data-set name appears as the New Resource. In some cases the user may wish to switch between the 2 data-sets.Currently this can only be do...
almost 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Display all executing JES jobs at top of filter

Today the executing jobs are at the bottom of filter display. We need a way to filter them to the top of the stack? a way of setting the display order for the different types of jobs (input jobs/running jobs/output jobs)
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

IMS 15 Continous Delivery optional function

Assumption: I get a new optional function. I can turn this function on and off by command. I can turn this function on by parameter in a proclib member. Now I'm in production and want to prevent anyone from switching off this feature via command. ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Put transaction and system dump tables in RDO (SHARE requirement SSCICS94012)

Settings for transaction and system dump codes should be able to be defined dynamically with RDO.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Provide a dynamic link management function for GM

IBM provided a dynamic link management ability in GDPS v4.5, which is a really nice addition, but have so far not released the same ability for GM. That impacts us as Metro Global customers because we have to have 2 procedures for managing link fa...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Add new PLIPARSE built-in function to parse an input string

Please add a new PLIPARSE built-in function to PL/I V5.3 to split an input string into various fields based on given delimiters: The first argument is the input string to be parsed. The arguments after that input string consist of - an even number...
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered