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Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Indicator in the Analyze Client interface to tell the user if the project is ready for discovery

Currently users don't know if a project is completed as the last step of a MAKE or BUILD action nl. batch server callgraph update process, is hidden. It must be clear for users if they can rely on the analysis results or if the batch portion is st...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

API to fill manually the Remote Error List

In IDz we would like to offer to our developers the Remote Error list filled with the compile errors / warnings / information of Cobol Programs. Since we have a multi-step-compile we cannot use the usual way for this feature due to a shift of the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

ZWS Support for SMF Exit IEFU86

z/OS 2.3 introduced SMF Exit IEFU086, which is being recommended to use in place of IEFU83, IEFU84, and IEFU85 since it can handle the new extended SMF record header. IEFU86 is currently not documented nor is a customized sample version shipped wi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Please create/update izpca with record definition and tables for SMF 116 class 4 report and SMF_115 subtype 5,6,7

MQ team has been advised by IBM to use these reports and the IZPCA product doesn't have these defined.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IZBR backup syntax structure to facilitate common language regardless of backup engine

IZBR supports backup tracking for a variety of z/OS backup utilities. Often a client running IZBR will incorporate IZBR specific backup procs based on a specific utility. When that client choses to adopt a new solution they can be faced with mass ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 1 Future consideration

Alert on HALFDOWN

By default, System Automation creates an alert (INGALERT) if an application goes into BROKEN, ZOMBIE or STOPPED (OS_PROBLEM). HALFDOWN is a status as bad as the others and requires intervention (compound=problem), but SA doesn't react the same way...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support passing Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java

We would like to pass Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java. Currently this is only supported using ROY IMS Connect clients or using IMS TM Resource Adapter. Our main IMS Connect client is written in Java and uses t...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

ACM, Authentication over TCP/IP

Hello,the problem is the authentication on access ACM.Which option(s) do we have to deny a potential attacker the access to these critical functions while allowing it to ACM? I have understood that the protocol of the service is complex and diffic...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration