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IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

E3270 Events Tab KOBSEVTS should accept multi-tenancy settings

Currently Omegamon E3270 events tab KOBSEVTS doesn't use multi-tenancy settings and shows all available events. KOBSEVTS should benefit multi-tenancy settings. The customer should have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they want to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change the default for all screens to make all columns Sortable and Filterable, similar to the way they are in the TEPS.

As an OMEGAMON Technical SME, I am asked frequently to create custom screens in the Enhanced 3270 User Interface (e3270ui). Ninety-nine percent of the time, this is simply to add fields to FILTERCOLS and SORTCOLS. While this is easy to do, you win...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Enable migration of Situations between Omegamon instances without the use of the TEP

Omegamon situations can be created by using the TEP, or by using the e3270UI. For those clients running a TEP, the situations can then be migrated between Omegamon environments by using the TACMD command to export and import the situations. For th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Allow helps associated to alerts in the KOBSITEC workspace (e3270ui)

Like in TEP, we would like in the e3270ui a Help for the alerts shown in the KOBSITEC workspace. It should be the same (plain text) that was defined in the Situation that generate the alert. The Help could be an additional option in the "Options M...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration