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    Update SCNMLNK1 member ISTIECCE to tolerate supported versions of NetView

    Providing the ability for new versions of NetView to tolerate supported versions of ISTIECCE (and perhaps ISTIETMN?) would allow significantly higher availability for VTAM users. Per Communications Server documentation: "Because VTAMLIB is opened ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    pipe PARSE function in EDIT STage should permit the utilization of Hex Strings.

    Command output may have data separators of specific hexstrings instead of the standard X'40' Currently the Edit stage does not permit the usage of hexString in the PARSE function which indicates you cannot separate the data.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

    Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

    Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

    We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
    over 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

    Single FTP session to allow MFA

    In the FTP perspective, use only one FTP session. This will allow our multi factor authentication MFA. From the sniffer/Wireshark, we see the first session authenticate, but the second fails because the same token pin is presented a second time. T...
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

    NetView IPTRACE Analyze Function Needs a PF8

    NetView IPTRACE Analyze Function Needs a PF8 Scroll Forward Key. NetView's IPTRACE Analyze Function is good but to get to the next trace record the user needs to back out, select the next trace record and hit ANALYZE again.This is cumbersome when ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    Ability to use thePREFIX paramenter when using JOBNAME on an UPON statement in an MRT

    You cannot use the PREFIX parameter when using JOBNAME on the UPON statement in an MRT. The alternative is to code this using the OTHERMSG statement but this is not as efficient.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    Suspend & resume timers from Netview commands

    Using SETTIMER panel, we suspend & resume timers during DR excercise. But since there are many timers sometimes it's a tedious job. To facilitate the same via script, there seems to be no option to suspend & resume timer via commands. Only...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    Preserve the contents of /etc/netview/snmp/persist/snmpapp.conf (if one exists) when an error occurs with SNMP TRAP command

    The current format of the SNMPv3 EngineID used by NetView is random. It has been observed when the snmpapp.conf file is renamed or destroyed, a new file is created that contains a new EngineID value, which will cause problems with the destination ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

    Enhance NV WINDOW command to return selected data back to caller

    Hi NV development, Please enhance NV WINDOW/CNME1505 to return user selected data on the screen back to the caller either in a task global variable or other means. We do not want to develop a VIEW panel for every Exec we write. We would like to le...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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