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SUBSTR JCL command should support variables with up to 44 chars or allow a continuation with the SETVAR directive

It should be possible to process up to 44 digits within a SUBSTRING command or to allow a continuation within the SETVAR directive. Variables with a value with up to 44 characters are not supported with the SUBSTR JCL function.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide TS7700 BVIR support

The latest VTS technology does not use SMF type94 records for VTS monitoring/performance. Instead, BVIR records exported from the clusters are extracted. Need to be able to load these records for VTS activity and other information.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add ability to enable/disable JVMENDPOINT resource in CICS TS Urban Code Deploy plugin

CICS TS 5.6 created a new resource called a JVMENDPOINT. We would like to be able to issue enable and disable commands for this new resource via the CICS TS Urban Code Deploy plugin.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Monitor BMP Checkpoint rate

We would like to be able to set a situation i Omegamon that becomes true when the checkpoint rate for a BMP exceeds the number of checkpoints per second for a given value. In the attribute group for Dependent Regions there is only BMP Checkpoint C...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM Debug: Improved sort for Monitor Expression handling of array entries

Hi IBM, Please improve the sort order in the Debugger Remote GUI in IDz within the Monitors view. Currently the sort button sorts all expressions on the displayed string. This leads table/array entries to be sorted not by the numeric but by the st...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Debugger Profile Service (EQAPROF) to implement sysplex awareness

We only want to use a VIPA for the communication between IDz and the mainframe. With IBM z/OS Debugger version 16.0.1 IBM added sysplex-awareness, so now the last missing part that is not sysplex-aware is the EQAPROF. So please add this support.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow helps associated to alerts in the KOBSITEC workspace (e3270ui)

Like in TEP, we would like in the e3270ui a Help for the alerts shown in the KOBSITEC workspace. It should be the same (plain text) that was defined in the Situation that generate the alert. The Help could be an additional option in the "Options M...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Custom health check for SYSIN Parms

Hi,Can we have a generic IBM Health checker for CICS where we can add any SYSIN/SIT parms that we like to monitor via IBM Health Checker product
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration