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Workload Service Assurance

Workload Service Assurance: When the Estimated Start Time or optionally the Estimated End Time of a critical job has past and the job has not started, automatically recalculate new Estimated Start and End Times for the critical job. Even with RECC...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SA timers on Application

In the SA dialog timers for lpars are specified under "30 TMR Timers". We also specify a lot of timers on the application in the STARTUP phase under ANYSTART with the CHRON command to set timer and in the SHUTDOWN phase under INIT to purge the tim...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

FM/IMS Database Compare

This Idea is for a FM/IMS function to do a formatted/synchronized database compare. The goal is to compare a database before and after it is changed, to report on what changed. This is probably a multi-step process: Generate and run a batch job to...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save Menu Manager variables

When displaying a menu window. It displays the default values that we defined (Windows -> Preferences -> Menu Manager -> Actions and Menus). Is there a way to remember the user last choice? So when I set a library name, it will be display...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Check-box Remoter Error List

Regarding to a request TS003124951 i asked if ther was some checkbox to check so when run Remote Syntax Error of a cobolprogram the Remote error list could be filled with warnings and errors.If it is not the current active view this could be confu...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

support error message during startup

Keep Status Messages (Halted, Breaking, Broken, Abending, Abended) of resources over UP-Message(s). Allow threshold processing to issue commands for INFR, FREQ, CRIT during Startup-process Simular to MTR-resources allow to issue commands if Thresh...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

User build option to be visible for second program as project default for 1st program and wizard to be improved

It will reduce the developer time for userbuild. I have added all description as attached the screen and shot. Kindly refer the ticket no TS009289506 if any additional questions
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration