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COMMIT frequency in PURGE

Include an COMMIT frequency parameter in PURGE command. We have large tablespaces and an huge retetion (6 months to 2 years depending of the table). When the PURGE execute the job takes more or less 5 hours, causing the resources get locked and ti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Monitor the jobs for sending an email when an alert condition occurs

Alert notifications can be critical for any business. Therefore, a method for monitoring email notification jobs is necessary. As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to variou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Mitigate potential security exposure of current ETT functionality by identifying/authenticating user triggering the ETT job

At present, there is potential security exposure for ETT triggers set up as 'JOBNAME REPLACE' = N. Reason being, any user can inadvertently or otherwise submit a trigger job defined in Production ETT database thereby triggering ETT application eve...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

TWS : Add group definition in Layout fields list

Layout definition : Extend the selection to fields not belonging to the CP3P record but only to CP3C, such ad the Group Definition.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a "conditional record hold" function that allows the coder to specify the maximum number of waiters for this record.

In an effort to avoid record hold bottlenecks, rather than blindly issue a FIWHC (which can result in a lengthy wait queue), would it be a better idea to invent a conditional FIWHC equivalent that would allow the programmer to specify the maximum ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Date Time offset fields to SMF 110 record header

With the growing customer need to load SMF data into analytical tools, the requirement to align and associate the various records from multiple time zones using date and time is becoming more critical. The lack of date time offset values in the so...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Allow to use RACF as keystore database for E2E Automation

The E2E Automation allows to have secured SSL-communication beetween the E2E-systems. Therefore you have to define some SSL-Keys. The configuration dialog within the feature allows to specify the name of the keystore inside the JAVA-Environment. T...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS to display SHARED and DEDICATED utilization for all processors types i.e. GCPs, zIIPs, IFLs and ICFs

How to monitor CPU usage when having a mix of shared and dedicated processors. We have a setup where we are using shared IFLs for our z/VM LPARs running our Linux on Z workloads, and we have dedicated IFLs for our SSC LPAR running the IDAA on Z. I...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance NV WINDOW command to return selected data back to caller

Hi NV development, Please enhance NV WINDOW/CNME1505 to return user selected data on the screen back to the caller either in a task global variable or other means. We do not want to develop a VIEW panel for every Exec we write. We would like to le...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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