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Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Add New Configurable Timeout Value, Max Number of Cursors Value and Console Alerting to the MongoDB for z/TPF Product

Consider the following updates/changes for PSS with regards to the z/TPF MongoDB API: Make mongo connection timeout value configurable (hard coded today for 10 mins). Make maximum number of cursors configurable. When a condition such as “maximum c...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Future consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Include df lrec stats in DF Data Collection

Include lrec accessing stats as part of tpfdf data collection. Include adds, replaces, deletes for top lrecs and their associated subfiles.
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

When configuring LDAP/SDBM remove the need for a static 'admin' ID with password and ROAUDIT access

An ideal situation would be if the initial LDAP bind and subsequent query to determine group membership could be conducted under each individual user's specific DN. Under LDAP/SDBM the following bind and search returns multiple LDAP attributes for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Make CRUISE Startup more like ZUDFM INIT

We had a situation where automation must have been running behind, so an operator started a CRUISE Capture job and before it completed, automation started. So we had this sequence:START job (by functional entry twice) and before it completed, STAR...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

SMU - Extension eezdocker.sh with command for restart UAA only

The eezdocker.sh script supports the most common commands to execute commands in the SMU container.With the Restart option, only the entire container can currently be restarted, which causes the application to be interrupted.So it would be desirab...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

z/TPFDF read processing should validate and fix backward chain fields as it reads forward

As TPFDF read processing reads forward through a given subfile from the prime block to the 1st overflow, the 2nd overflow, and so on, TPFDF should validate that the backward chain in the next block contains the file address of the previous block. ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

The CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF works fine except that old pools are not getting released

Hi, When running a CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF database, old pools are not getting released even though the RELEASE option is specified in the CRUISE RESTORE definition table. We prefer to have old pools released following a CRUISE Rest...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration