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remote support for mon list var(indx)

Monitor expression Var(indx) in remote debug session shows all available variables . Support is available for MFI
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Temperature value in attrubute group of omegamon agent

Customer needs to monitor temperature values of z/OS server (CPU, system board and etc) over IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent. Please include this functionality into further releases of ITM Agent
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add PROCESS RENT cards to generated XML Parser in CICS WebService Support

Would like the generated XML Parsing logic to include the PROCESS RENT where any other PROCESS cards are added. When multiple programs are in one source member and a new set of PROCESS cards are found, the options are reset to the compiler default...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Support Transaction Class Group to Enhance Transaction Availability

BOC use transaction class to restrict the transaction concurrency number, as their are more than one transaction in the transaction class, if one of the TRAN has reach the Maxactive which defined by Tclass, all the other transactions will not be a...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Low-level API for CADP Debug Profiles

The IBM products Rational Developer for System z (RDz) and Rational Integration Tester (RIT) require the ability to programmatically (non-interactively) read and write the CADP based debug profiles. At present, the only exposed interface is the tr...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support Task Tags in LPEX System Z editor for COBOL

System z LPEX editor supports Task Tags for C/C++ and HLASM. Task tags within COBOL & PL/I should be supported also.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Refresh automatic Fault Analyzer Plugin PDTOOLS

the idea would be after the opening of a log file, have a way to refresh the view or the history file as the monitor JES
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RFE - Option ALL not available for ROW COUNT

Option ALL not available for ROW COUNT
about 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

T2 DB QUIESCE command issued and no RMs are available in the IMSPLEX

"When none of the RMs are available when DB Quiesce issues the IMSPlex-wide request to terminate the DB Quiesce process, the DBQ process resource is not deleted from the resource structure and the databases remain quiesced, with no easy way to get...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

Add pipeline support for XML

Add pipeline support for XML similar to JSON pipeline.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration