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Auto mapping

Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE to WAPL LIST GENDAYS

With WAPL, the LIST GENDAYS can be used to generate the passage dates for a RULE. Unfortunately, SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE cannot be encoded in LIST GENDAYS. So the dates determined are wrong. However, the GENDAYS for this interactive RULE does take ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Request for application not visible in SMU when coming from Rest Server (API)

I notice the following in SMU: if an application (e.g.) is stopped via the api then it is not visible in SMU that there is a vote/request for this application. That's not very convenient.....You can now see that an application is DOWN but not why ...
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

Message when PPI status changes

Some NetView functions need to connect to the NetView PPI to be operational. We can see these vis DISPPI command. We manage a couple of function using SA and have to poll the DISPPI command to check the connection. To make this processing better, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Threshold changes should be possible to dynamically revert back

Our team uses SA 4.1 and NetView 6.2.1 for mange applications. Panel AOFKAASR allows to dynamically add, change threshold but it doesn't allow to revert changes back to previous state. This function should be added to avoid recycle NetView, ACF CO...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

allow STCKE columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T to be pulled as a timestamp using SQL

These columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T are not usable, because they cannot be selected as a readable value using DB2 mainframe SQL. TIME_ZC_ENTRY_E TIME_ZC_EXIT_E TIME_SOR_SENT_E TIME_SOR_RECV_E I was asked to submit a RFE for this, but I did find ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

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