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Possibility to disable (hide) "Manage schedules"

In our shop we use ZWS for the planned stop/start of subsystems. We do not use INGSCHED, nor want colleagues to use it. As they do not know INGSCHED, they do not use it. But with SMU the option is visual as one of the operational tasks and thus th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

Raise IMS/Connect 50 port limitation

Increase the IMS/Connect port limitation of 50.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Delivered

BANK HAPOALIM LTD

The Customer developed user-written rules to be tested with Code Review and wish to run them all in a Batch process on the zSystem:They used the provided JCL proc AKGCR to run the code review.The job was successful but the elapsed time was long, a...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Enhance Display of Channel/Container Info in CICS Dumps

Currently FA displays Channel info in Level, Commareas, and Channels.This display is inconvenient when inspecting a dump with a lot of levels and with channels which contain a lot (sometimes hundreds) of containers.The display of one container con...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Code Review on zOS works but produces java exceptions and FrameworkEvent ERROR

Running Code Review AKGCR on zOS produces the following java exception as well as several Framework Event errors:!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERRORandJVMJZTK2999W jzos.jar build version '2.4.4 2012-07-27' does not match libjzos DLL build version '2.4.8...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Sort for entry date in jes spool monitor

We want to have the option to sort the job output in the jes spool monitor in remote system view by entry date, so that the latest jobout is shown at the beginning.With IDz 14.2 the sort order of job output is by jobid, but this is not a usefull s...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered

Provide a dynamic link management function for GM

IBM provided a dynamic link management ability in GDPS v4.5, which is a really nice addition, but have so far not released the same ability for GM. That impacts us as Metro Global customers because we have to have 2 procedures for managing link fa...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Omegamon for Networks OSA7 support

When trying to monitor OSA7 in the OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS product you do not get any data. This request is to provide the monitoring for this feature. The OSA-Express7S 25 Gigabit Ethernet (25GbE) feature was introduced on z14, and with z15...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered