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Export the data in ‘Data Elements' window to spreadsheet.

If we can export this into a spreadsheet, we can perform the following: 1. Use the Data element analysis and filter on different columns. E.g. filter on unused (reference count zero) variables. 2. Sum up the pic clause in spread sheet – to count t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

OLSMS display refinements to storage group TOTALs

The current information displayed can be inaccurate when volumes in the storage group are in a Disabled or Quiesced state.
about 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

GDPS/LCP panel security

As outlined in our case TS005575235 we think it is a major issue that GDPS does not have panel security for LCP. It appears as though any internal user with GDPS access can go in and adjust the LCP management profile and change the retention perio...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Allow parameter file ing.adapter.jlog.properties to be customizable in the DIRC directory.

I have set up the End-to-End Automation Adapter to be able to talk to Service Management Unite and ultimately to automate non-z/OS applications. When the INGXADPT started task is running I noticed that, as well as fully documented ports, INGXADPT ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

Missing details of execution of z/OS Connect in Omegamon IMS traces

When we is reviewing ATVW and ATVD panels we would like get details about z/OS Connect invocations, the same way with DB2 or MQ conexions (info for BAQSTUB execution for example)
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource

Hello,we are implementing CICS LIBRARY resources in our CICS Systems.However we'd have appreciated being able to specify System Symbols in DSNames within the Library concatenation. As we currently use System Symbols to make products upgrades in ou...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Increase default MAXREL size for EQQADDS and EQQLTDS

The MAXRECL default for the AD ( EQQADDS) and LT (EQQLTDS) has been 131072 for a long time. Some customers already need to increase the MAXRECL size and if more fields are added to support new functionality, the current MAXRECL sizes may become in...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

IMS Online Reorg - OSAM PS to OSAM LDS

Allow converting from OSAM Physical Sequential to OSAM Linear Dataset via Online Reorg Shadow Copy (SHADOW(E)) technique. This is needed for IMS OSAM Encryption.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Delivered

Don't stop PGM on abend

A lot of our jobs are running IMSBATCH only for GSAM feature (only DB2 access)We are using GSAM for repositionning/restart capabilityAll these jobs are running with the same BMP which contains 10 input files (in01 to in10) and 20 output files (OUT...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered