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Modify command to display parms of running controller

Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

We have needs to relocate an Omegamon Hub from a Windows Server to the Mainframe - migration docs should be offered

Hello, no proper migration docs are available for Hub migration from one system to another (in our case from Windows to Mainframe).Problems arose during the migration of managed systems, groups and situations, so that information that had not been...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic SGC volume expansion from GDPS

It would be great if GDPS could initiate and validate the completion of a Dynamic SGC volume expansion instead of client should do it manually from DS8K GUI/CLI.It would give great value if we can do our work from GDPS directly instead of having a...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

Enabling X-command (Export and Import Applications) in advanced panels

Export and Import Applications from the dialog (1.4.3) makes it easy and fast to export applications and even to import them fastly to another system. However it is only available in the _old_ panel style. The Export and Import Applications (X-Com...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Setting IPLType on KG-Syestem versus setting on the (LCP) R-system should be same

In an LCP setup it is possible to set the IPLTYPE both on the KG-System as on the (LCP) R-System. When setting it on the KG-System it is also propagated to the R-system. The other way around this is not the case. So when setting the IPLTYPE on the...
11 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition of information related to IFCID 369 and load them in a new D_KPM_DB2_% table

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition (Record DB2 with deltas calculation via DRLSD64D program) of information related to IFCID 369 (Aggregated Accounting Statistics). This will let us get accounting information aggregated from the SMF ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Improvements to Load Parameter Management in Standard Actions

In our production plex, we have 576 load parameter combinations for our applications systems. Performing mass updates is cumbersome and time consuming. We would like to see enhancements to the process thus; 1. The ability to backup these entries t...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

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