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Please add SMF type 98 support

SMF type 98 - High frequency records will provide details that help to determine root cause of short term performance issues. Our business demands consistent fast responses and delays of a few seconds can cause significant impact to the business. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

Enhance length of command processing line to a number > 217 chars

We have written several long pipes within the command processing entries that have gone longer than 217 characters - even with using every synonym available. We have had to use creative ways to pass the results of one command line down to become i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Replace IGYCDOPT - Compiler options - with a regular options file

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Move the options in FMN2POPT - FM/Db2 options module - to a regular parameter file

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

AD analyse client and AD server shall coexist with different release levels

Requirement is that the AD analyse client and AD server can coexist with different release levels very much like IDz have implemented their support allowing +-2 release difference. Having this will let us upgrade the server and then gradually upgr...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

zOS Connect tracking token in x'56FA' records

We are seeing a large increase in traffic to our backend IMS systems using z/OS Connect and API. We offload z/OS Connect SMF records to splunk along with IMS x'56FA' records. z/OS Connect provides a tracking token which currently IMS stores in x'0...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

NetView CANZLOG browse filter condition

We are planning to use 'BR CANZLOG' with several filters. When we issue 'BR CANZLOG' command with several filters, we get results meet all filters' requirements.For example, If we specify 'BR CANZLOG OPERID=AUTOIMS MSGID=DFS', only DFSxxx messages...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Dynamic capability missing

The client complain that the Dynamic capability has been removed in the latest version, and would be happy if it would be implemented again.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0