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Enable migration of Situations between Omegamon instances without the use of the TEP

Omegamon situations can be created by using the TEP, or by using the e3270UI. For those clients running a TEP, the situations can then be migrated between Omegamon environments by using the TACMD command to export and import the situations. For th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support for Push-Only Traffic from IMS via z/OS Connect API Requester

We are seeing an increased requirement for the mainframe transactional systems to publish updates to distributed systems. Products like Change Data Capture allow us to do this for data that is logged to database or file (typically structured data)...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Change WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob.

The possibility in ZWS to change specific WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob. (as mass update on ZWS DB). If an application id can be selected with a wildcard would be great. We want to remove a WS on the current plan (option 5.5) but th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Group Actions in SA Rest API Server

While most basic functions are available in the SA Rest Operations Server were definitely missing some important ones such as GROUP actions. INGMOVE is a common use within our company for high availability purposes during maintenance. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Authentication based on a Client Certificate (SA Operation Rest Server)

The preference of using a certificate to authenticate instead of Basic Authentication like a username and password. For automating purposes you would prefer not to use Basic Authentication and instead use something like a Client Certificate, espec...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (CICS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Introduce Python into NetView Scripting

REXX is very easy; we all know how to code it and it is easy to learn for the newbies. Still, all the youngsters seem to know coding with Python. Python provides a readily available toolbox, which will help the new joiners to be productive quickly...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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