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To have more capacity so that we can store more CICS Task historical information

Omegamon for CICS Task History Dataset held less than 6 hours data.Kindly advise any CICS statistic required for the calculation.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

An enhancement to the IMS Universal Drivers and Open Database Manager to allow for batching IMS segment data for the keyed segment and all of its dependent/child segments

Currently the JDBC driver allows for batching off a specific SSA list. Our application requires a way to fetch segments of varying parentage that do not conform to a single SSA. For example, We have a three level hierarchy of SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2, A...
about 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

The GDPS shutdown process of multiple LPARs today are done in parallel, however the monitoring of the progress of each LPAR is done serially. Since the shutdown is done in parallel, the checking should also be done in parallel so if a timeout occurs the GEO288A message is issued at the time of the timeout and not serialized.

To speed up the shutdown process and be notified of potential timeouts sooner so they can be actioned.
about 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Docu: username / password restrictions CICS Websupport

„CICS Web Support“ expects a special CCSID for username / password whenusing „EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE“. We came accross it, when testing with BASIC AUTH and a username including an@-character (e.g. user@xxx.de). When reading mulitple documentations...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
almost 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 1 Future consideration

Provide method to help automate the missing SMF rcds when SMF Extractor is down on a Lpar.

It is possible for SMF Extractor to be down and you can lose SMF data to be collected. The only way to collect those missing rcds for that Lpar is to run a COLLECT and estimate a time. It would be nice if SMF Extractor would give 2 timestamps, 1 o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Support the mounting of Keystores in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? (IPIC is used as an example to illustrate the requirement, but the requirement extends to any Keystores that may be required by a z/OS Connect API server.) IPIC security is an important consideration when deploying z/OS Connect A...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Add RMF 74 subtype 10 support

Starting with IBM z15, IBM relocated EADM/zEDC and SCM (Storage Class Memory) metrics from RMF 74 subtype 9 to subtype 10. These performance metrics are key for measuring z/OS system, application performance, yet with IzPCA, there is no longer zED...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Future consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration