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Automatic increase virtual capacity for volume Safe Guarded Copy

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume. The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However,...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Add the support for TFP report

IntelliMagic Vision provides SCRT report and Usage 4 Hour Rolling Average report, but TFP report is not provided.Would you add the support for TFP report?
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adding X-command (Export and Import) to each database element (analog to applications 1.4.3)

In an enterprise environment, the process of importing and exporting artifacts from the database, such as ETTs, Periods, Runcycle Groups, JCL Variable Tables, and more, is a necessary task. Currently, the X-command in panel EQQALSTL serves as an e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDz DB2 Tooling. Increase the DDL text limitation when viewing Native Stored Procedures DDL source in IDz. Currently capped at 32K bytes.

In order for IDZ 16.0.4 or greater to be an effective development tools for z/OS DB2 Native stored procedures, it must be able to process NSPs with DDL greater than 32K. We have many if not most NSPs falling into this category The following error ...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Future consideration

GDPS ability to have multiple flash copies in MGM 3-site

In a 3 site MGM environment , with virtual LCP copy & a testcopy, we are limited to only 1 testcopy flashcopy target. We have a requirement to take Flashcopies once a week along with having RC1 flashcopy taken daily. Currently, there is ...
11 months ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS 0 Future consideration

Achieve multi-tenancy support for the sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text)

As the need for a multi-tenant system with TWS grows in significance due to the decentralization of work across various groups within the company, having a mechanism to separate sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text) among different auth...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Extend limit on WAPL request

I opened a case about a request I would like to run with WAPL (TS017700231) We found one, but the result seems to big and I face a limit of the product. According to the Tech assigned on my case: it's a well known limitation. After few thousands l...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Modify command to display parms of running controller

Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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