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Enable migration of Situations between Omegamon instances without the use of the TEP

Omegamon situations can be created by using the TEP, or by using the e3270UI. For those clients running a TEP, the situations can then be migrated between Omegamon environments by using the TACMD command to export and import the situations. For th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Export Omegamon/CICS Trace to file or sysout

The transaction TRACE in only available to consult using history option using 3270 screen. It would be good to save the TRACE and send it to the develoment team to analise the sequence of the programs and commands because they do not have access t...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Functionality already exists

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Different behaviours of IMS when a transaction is stopped.

When a transaction is stopped and a new primary message arrives, IMS returns the beautifull “DFS065 TRAN/LTERM stopped” message and does not queue the message..But when the message arrives from prog-to-prog (secondary message), the message is queu...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Change WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob.

The possibility in ZWS to change specific WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob. (as mass update on ZWS DB). If an application id can be selected with a wildcard would be great. We want to remove a WS on the current plan (option 5.5) but th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

DBB Toolkit API - CopyToPDS does not support statistics

When the CopyToPDS command from the DBB Toolkit API is invoked to copy a ZFS file to a partitioned dataset, then the copied member in the PDS(E) has not statistics. The size, created, changed and ID fields are all empty. This does not seem logical...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

Supply more details in RACF SMF_80_COMMAND records

IBM Z Operational Log and data Analytics has support for a lot of RACF SMF records. One of them is RACf SMF_80_COMMAND. This records logs all issued RACF commands. We're very interested in e.q. ALTUSER commands. The records list Who issued the com...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
almost 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

Fix typos in SMPE install jobs

Hi, Almost all the SMPE jobs includedw with "IBM Open Enterprise Foundation 1.1.0" , contain text in cols 73 to 80. It'd be great if the text stayed within columns 1-72 so less manual editing was needed. Thanks, Travis
7 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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