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IntelliMagic Vision Japanese panel support

Please add the Japanese panels for IntelliMagic. Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description and help. It may be the inhibitor to promote IntelliMagic Vision in Japan. Our competitor have Japanese panels.
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Please add the support for zLinux as IntelliMagic server when using on-premises version

Now only Windows server is supportable as on-premises server for IntelliMagic. Our customer wants to use it on zLinux.
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Please add the function to report IMS performance from IMS SLDS or OLDS.

Now IMS PA or MainView for IMS are required to report IMS performance by IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS. But some customers don't use IMS PA nor MainView and it should be the inhibitor to promote IMV.Please add the function for IMV to stream the dat...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Needs more information

Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding X-command (Export and Import) to each database element (analog to applications 1.4.3)

In an enterprise environment, the process of importing and exporting artifacts from the database, such as ETTs, Periods, Runcycle Groups, JCL Variable Tables, and more, is a necessary task. Currently, the X-command in panel EQQALSTL serves as an e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDz DB2 Tooling. Increase the DDL text limitation when viewing Native Stored Procedures DDL source in IDz. Currently capped at 32K bytes.

In order for IDZ 16.0.4 or greater to be an effective development tools for z/OS DB2 Native stored procedures, it must be able to process NSPs with DDL greater than 32K. We have many if not most NSPs falling into this category The following error ...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Future consideration

GDPS ability to have multiple flash copies in MGM 3-site

In a 3 site MGM environment , with virtual LCP copy & a testcopy, we are limited to only 1 testcopy flashcopy target. We have a requirement to take Flashcopies once a week along with having RC1 flashcopy taken daily. Currently, there is ...
11 months ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS 0 Future consideration

Please add Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to IZPCA Tables

We have multiple time zone LPARs. We would like to be able to work with a common time (UTC) so that data from LPARs with different time zones can be aligned correctly.
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

GDPS MGM Support for FC1 Incremental Flashcopy

This customer's implemented on October 10th , GDPS MGM Global , with three sites and a fourth copy FC1.They are doing the Flashcopy every day and they are complaining about the time to complete the full copy.One of the solutions would be to change...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 7 Planned for future release