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Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
over 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

IDz - CARMA/Endevor type processor group description

There is usually more than one processor group for each type. In order to know which processor group to choose, the programmer needs to use the description of processor groups. Choosing the wrong processor group can cause production failures. In t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to locate a specific job within an application schedule without the need to manually browse

When looking for a specific job in an IWS application ID you have to manually browse through the schedule to find the job your looking for. It would be nice to be able to enter an 'F <jobName>' command in the primary command line to go strai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Task history collection filters to reduce/control collection.

Task history collection collects records for all task in the region. We want to be able to filter on what tasks are collected. and only collect the records for tasks that pass the filters setup for the region. The filters could be, but not limited...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Supporting Larger Screen Sizes / Logmodes for NetView / System Automation Panels e.g. INGLIST

Hello NetView / SA Team, currently we are migrating from IBM AF/Operator to NetView SA at our side. And during this migration more and more inquiries are arriving that NetView only displays 62 rows at the most panels (e. g. INGLIST, DISPINFO, and ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Support for Software A.G.'s EntireX product

Extend your COBOL and Natural applications to the digital economy with APIs webMethods EntireX provides a cost-effective and efficient path for IT modernization and API enablement—whether you need to integrate mainframe assets into process applica...
about 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Include ZOAU as part of base Python

If using Python on zOS it is very likely it will be required to access zOS resources and therefore ZOAU will be required. To reduce the overheads associated with installing and maintaining 2 x products, ZOAU should come as part of the base Python ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 1 Future consideration

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