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Add CTG Explorer Column - STATS PORT

Add Stats Port information Column. Explorer already shows TCP and SSL port. Would be good to see the Stats Port also; then can view in single view all CTG Ports in use.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Pseudo figurative constants "max-value" and "min-value"

In some processing, we need to assign the greatest possible value, or the smallest possible value, to a data-item, without necessarily knowing the PICTURE and the USAGE of this data-item (processing carried out by COPYBOOKs of general interest) . ...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Future consideration

Enhance INGEXEC to allow local substitution of System Variables

Ingexec will allow you route commands to another system and will allow the customer to specify # for the AOCQRY variables that should be substituted on the system of execution and for the resource in which the ingexec is using. Currently I specify...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Workspace with an enterprise overview about the current status for each CPC RMF DDS CPC report

We need a workspace that shows the current RTEMS selected for each CPC's RMF DDS CPC report retrieval. With that overview it would be easier to anaylse communication issues and prevent switching on the PlexView agent tracing to provide a friendly ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

The interface to update Special Resources from System Automation uses high CPU

When we do changes to System Automation and refresh the system automation policy, TWS users excessive CPU updating the special resources STATUS (message EQQQ504I). Please can you review the code and make the interface more efficient.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 3 Future consideration

Check on Jobclass parameter in operation details

Unfortunately there is no check if the value defined in the Jobclass field in the operation details of an operation with a Computer (CPU) Workstation is empty or incorrect. A solution will be that there will be a check if the jobclass value will m...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SMU - Extension eezdocker.sh with command for restart UAA only

The eezdocker.sh script supports the most common commands to execute commands in the SMU container.With the Restart option, only the entire container can currently be restarted, which causes the application to be interrupted.So it would be desirab...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Data Shifting on File Manager display on pack COMP-3 data field

Data shifting to the right on File Manager when the data field is a packed Comp-3 value.
almost 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

possibility to add a CEEOPTS prefix

Customer needs to debug a pgm and needs to have CEEOPTS prefixed(like //DB2PREFIX.CEEOPTS DD *) For the JCL generation, he right clicked the source pgm, then askedprobably generate the JCL "For compile link debug". The generation added //CEEOPTS D...
almost 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Space Abends in Sort and others

The client is looking for a solution to get rid of ALL space abends. My client is looking for a solution to get rid of x37 space abends. We have recommended regular volume additions, periodic JCL review, SORT tuning exercises etc as IBM best pract...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration