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Need explicit Resp information in CICS Application Events

When creating a CICS application event, the user cannot specify a filter using the Response code, only on OK or NOT OK. When this is coupled with not being able to include the response codes in the emitted data (that I can find) I cannot drive act...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Support mixed case in field „Applparms“

Today data entered in the field “Applparms” (INGREQ or INGSET) will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this field.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Alert capability in Omegamon/IMS Classic for TPIPE QCT

The current alert facility in Omegamon/IMS Classic does not have the capability to inform a user that a particular TPIPE has something queued in it. The QCT field in the /DIS TMEMBER TPIPE command is what we want to be trapped and reported on.
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Javadoc for JZOS as JAR or ZIP

Make the javadoc for JZOS available in a method that can be imported into an IDE as a standard part of the Java order and install, such as a zip or JAR.
about 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

System Automation, add "members=yes" option to INGDATA

In System Automation for z/OS, add the "MEMBERS=YES" option to the INGDATA interface. This would behave the same as for the INGLIST command: expanding a passed APG name into its component members.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a new feature to start DRF SAS according to SORTPARM(NUM(nnn)) even if STACK was specified.

The customer ran into a problem where thousands of output image copies were taken after a recovery during DR exercise because STACK keyword was not specified (STACK causes all the DBs in that recovery profile to be pointed to one IDRF0001 job and ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Cross Dependency: "Real Time" status in shadow Job

If we use automatic recovery statements (e.g. to insert a new application as new predecessor) the workstation status of shadow jobs don't change from E to W. IWS changes the status of the shadow job after the recovery action is completed (the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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