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Job Log Monitoring Multi-line message support

The job log monitoring feature (INGJLM) currently supports only single line messages, meaning that only the first line of a mult-line message will be returned. All lines of a multi-line message should be returned as they are part of the same message.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Stream WebSphere Liberty message.log to Logstash ELK

Recently application team intend to transfer WebSphere Liberty message.log and to display only particular info such as response time in MAGE. So, we config a stream for WebSphere Liberty message.log to be sent to Logstash ELK. From Data Streamer l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

INGALERT should default to use MVSESA if the jobname is not known to System Automation

If INGALERT code is called from the Message Automation Table, if not specified, the jobname is taken from the message's job name field. If the jobname is not known to System Automation, no alert is generated and the following message is issued: IN...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Log user, who in the E3270UI System Programmer's Toolkit gives what system commands

The E3270UI already logs z/OS and CICS commands in the E3270UI SYSPRINT DD when commands are given using the E3270UI workspaces. However the System Programmers Toolkit does not, this means that system commands when give via the System Programmer's...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced Auto-Formatting Options for COBOL Editor

We'd like to have more options to influence the syntax-formatter in COBOL editor. At the moment there are few options for intention on IF oder WHEN etc... I wish some more options: 1) Intention for WHEN relative to EVALUATE2) Intention for the tex...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support without having application to handle the addition RFH V2 header

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support(OA62795) is rely on addition RFH V2 header. With feature enabled, either corresponding application needs to be enhanced to handle the addition header or q ueue definitions has to change to propctl=none. The requiremen...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration