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Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Update the PSB/ACB in IMS Transaction Isolation tool

A PSB is created to provide access to IMS resources for an IMS program, this is a one-to-one relationship. This relationship makes it difficult if many developers works with the same data and program. If a resource is shared between applications, ...
almost 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon xe on z/OS improve Soft Capping monitoring information

The information available within the SMF Record 70 Subtype 1 fields: SMF70NSW and SMF70NCA are not available at the related Omegamon on z/OS "System CPU Utilization" attributes group. These information collected and available at the RMF level can ...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CDPz: One datastreamer for multiple data gatherers from different sysplexes

Today, data gatherers and data streamer are locally defined to each LPAR. If we consider that Data Gatherers ( System Data Engine and Log Forwarder ) should stay local to each LPAR, it makes sense to be able to define only one Datastreamer for mul...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Make clear warning message for "Source -> Validate JCL" feature when working with tape datasets

'Source -> Validate JCL' feature does not support tape datasets, but instead when using this feature it returns "Dataset not found" for the tape dataset. This message brings confusion among users. If that feature does not work for tape datasets...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 4 Future consideration

Ability to keep BKR_Catalog & BKR_Job_Tape retention values in sync

In a backup job definition that will write the output to tape, we need to specify below 2 retention options: Config BKR_Catalog_Retention = nnnn Config BKR_Job_Tape_Retention = nnnn Is there was a way to ensure they match may be by defining it wit...
over 2 years ago in Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM 1 Future consideration

Add SPACES delimiter in WAPL VARSET WORD

On the Bell Canada account, in the WAPL code used to migrate a Z batch scheduler to IZWS 9.5, we are using the VARSET WORD command to parse the syntax of a scheduling interface. The original syntax of the scheduling interface allows the use of mul...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Avoid appearance of \" in smfid and message field of SYSLOG/OPERLOG in Humio

Today, if the SYSLOG/OPERLOG is transferred via CDP to Humio, fields like SMFID or @rawstring, which includes message id and message text, contain characters like \".It would be great if it would be possible to remove those characters before it ap...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

Persistent sessions HTTPS between TWS Z-centric agent and TWS Z/OS

We would like an evolution of the TWS Z-centric agent in the management of HTTPs sessions between the server and its TWS Z/OS controller. Currently, each time a TWS Z/OS controller job submits a job on a TWS Z-centric agent, 2 new TCP sessions are...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Enable Omegamon for JVM to monitor de zCEE DVM apis

Our client wants to exploit DVM thru zOS Connect apis, but is not posible to monitor the time of SoR when the system of records is DVM, at the latest Omegamon for JVM version its only posible to have the hole time spent consuming the api not the S...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

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