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Assignment of IMS MASTER terminal

Remove the need for ++USERMOD against DFSICL70 or other individual solutions to circumvent the /ASSIGN problem with IMS MASTER terminal
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Allow IMS applications to connect with the MQ queue sharing group name

Allow a IMS BMP to issue an MQCONN call specifying the queue sharing group name instead of the queue manager name
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Provide API to obtain IMS Restart time

Our applications are critical to large company telecommunications systems and we supply a support screen via an IMS 3270 TP transaction which shows system environment information, including installed release levels, IMS Catalog Status, and other z...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Logging IMS record x'56FA' on SMF

Our customer Unicredit is going to implement IBM IzPCA product that gets in near real time the SMF records created by almost all system software products running on Z. The only important subsystem that cannot be managed in such a way is IMS. We wo...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

deadlock detection across both IMS and DB2

Create a configurable mechanism for detecting and terminating deadlocks across IMS and DB2.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration