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Allow suppression of 'F'alse alerts from Situations.

As documented for Tivoli/Omegamon situation alerts:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/om-shared?topic=tos-how-write-message-console-situation "The message is produced when the situation is true (T) or false (F)." We would like an option to supress the 'F...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS Named Counter API Commands need security

CICS has a series of API commands to utilise Named Counters: DEFINE (D)COUNTER DELETE (D)COUNTER GET (D)COUNTER QUERY (D)COUNTER REWIND (D)COUNTER UPDATE (D)COUNTER Looking in the documentation: Access to named counter pools - IBM Documentation in...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS IPIC use of Sysplex Distributor for High Availability and Workload Balancing purposes

We would like CICS to use Sysplex Distributor to balance workload from a requester region in a SYSPLEX to several server regions in another SYSPLEX over IPIC connections on every transaction execution. Our requirement is similar to RFE 24351 but a...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

FM-LoadModule Analyzer should extract SQL SubOptions when listing CompilerOptions

When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the used SubOption. We need it specially for recognizing the ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)-Option. So...
almost 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IMS Sysprog

IRLM deadlock report does not include a Unit of work (UOW)or Unit of recovery (UOR) token for the transactions involved in the deadlock.Application programmers often request for input messages of the transaction when investigating the deadlocks. B...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Provide comprehensive Documentation on how the Product works, such as a Redbook.

Presently the IzPCA documentation is mainly about how to install and run the software, or how to be a Capacity Planner, not how the product actually functions. Without comprehensive documentation, customers have to depend on the vendor for ongoing...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Provide Documentation on Very Large Tables and their usage

Need a better understand of what these very large tables, such as the DB2_ENDUSER_* tables, are used for given they use 1000s of Cyls of dasd. With a better understanding of usage customer can decide if the tables are even needed. And drop them if...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy for Container (Channel) Size

We have a case where Client passes a Channel into CICS that is rather huge - 38,DB7,93Cx bytes. This drives the region short on storage on the GET CONTAINER, impacting other region workload. It would be beneficial to have a CICS Task Storage polic...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

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