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Include User Fields in DWC Monitor Workload job column.

We need to have a column in DWC with the user field enabled in Monitor Workload (job and critical job). This column should be editable to write and see comments about the job manage. In ISPF pannel this field can enable in handling error pannel, s...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 3 Future consideration

Select CICS Task History for a range of regions simultaneously.

Seeing the behaviour of a transaction in all CICS regions where it executes as opposed to one region at a time would simplify certain monitoring and trouble-shooting tasks. Being able to specify additional contexts for CICS Task History Summary - ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IZPCA support for extended format SMF records

Hi all, As discussed on case TS016821698, we want to read SMF record type 1153 (new in ZOS 2.5), JES Monitoring Facility Data, previously written as type 84. IZPCA actually has record type 84 mapped (DRLRS084). Record type 1153 is written using SM...
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide support for remote libraries in the local preprocessors in IDz

(This idea was originally logged as case: TS009687272) We are using GIT repositories for developing Cobol and PL/1 sources in IDz. Because these sources reside in the locally cloned repositories or editors can only use local property groups for r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Please improve IZPCA CP Cognos Reports for large z/OS environments

The IZPCA Cognos CP reports generally do not work well for a large zSeries environment. We had a meeting with you and demonstrated areas for improvement. Here are a couple of the key areas: Include an option to select the CEC names in CEC level re...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

IDz - Extending JCL Property Group

IDz works with Property Groups in order to be able to detect for instance copybooks. This should be enhanced for JCL members so we can use the include. This does work for remote members, but we need it as well for elements in the Project Explorer,...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Enhance DCAT command to support GDGORDER (LIFO/FIFO)

[11:57:39]GSM@estonia /u/home/gsm $ dls svtlog.syslogd.es.attls.* | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo -n {} - ; dcat {} | head -1 | cut -c1-15" 2>/dev/null Results in the following SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS.G4115V00 -Jul 23 16:29:31SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

QRadar/SIEM integration

EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

New RACF messages indicating Next Token mode

Background - We are migrating from CA Top Secret to IBM RACF, here at our site. We are also migrating from CA AAM to IBM MFA. Under CA Top Secret, we enter "RSA Next Token Mode" after failing 3 attempts to logon. The CA Top Secret throws messages ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Future consideration