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No hourly statistics for DFSMS DCOLLECT

the DFSMS component only collects at daily level, could you think about the creation of an hourly table, for exemple a DFSMS_VOLUME_H could help in the daily peak analisis for a Storage Group given.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

Provide ability to aggregate RMF-based data (e.g. CPU, IO, Memory etc. tables) into Weekly and/or Monthly trend tables

Need ability to create aggregation tables for RMF-based data for longer term trending. For example, create MVSPM_DEVICE_W, MVSPM_DEVICE_M tables for Device activity; simillarly for MVSPM_LCU_IO_H, MVSPM_CHANNEL_H, MVS_PAGING_H, MVSPM_VS_$$$$$_H, M...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

RDz EST to support UTF8 request codepage

In Create New Service Interface, the current RDz EST client cannot support UTF-8 request code page if the corresponding copybook field is defined as PIC X
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Need support for SOAP 1.2 binding in CICS compiled

RDz Enterprise Service Tool can only generate web service artifacts including WSDL in soap 1.1 binding for Compiled XML Conversion, even if setting soap version to 1.2 in the web service assistant option. Request to support generating web service ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RDz integration with OS Connect EE service archive generator and API editor

Provide integration with the z/OS Connect EE service archive generator similar to that provided by the CICS JSON services wizard of Enterprise Service Tools. This integration will facilitate the selection of input language structures and service p...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

Discrepancy for column timestamp in table DS_ACTIVITY_%

Recently we started to use the Data Set Component. Something seems strange with the column timestamp used in tables DS_ACTIVITY_%. The only timestamp collected is the one of job start time, that is from fields SMF14RSD,SMF14RST. But for a long run...
about 11 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Add PROCESS RENT cards to generated XML Parser in CICS WebService Support

Would like the generated XML Parsing logic to include the PROCESS RENT where any other PROCESS cards are added. When multiple programs are in one source member and a new set of PROCESS cards are found, the options are reset to the compiler default...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

IMS "wsdl first" WebServices: Reduce size of DFSPWSH message header (i.e. @dfs_async_msg_header)

Every web service request and response contains a first segment to transfer meta data, i.e. the @dfs_async_msg_header included DFSPWSH. The size of this header is fix for every request/response and is more then 5KB, mainly because of large field d...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

EST Bottom-Up support for unbounded arrays

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and support unbounded ar...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

EST Bottom-Up support for modern webservices

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is currently done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and supports m...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration