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Add ability to include tags to the provisioned resources

Adding tags with metadata about the resources like Virtual Servers will help in large ICIC installations. These tags may be later used to filter resources in operations like inventory, billing, maintenance, automation and so on. Tags are defined b...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 4 Needs more information

Provide WTO Capability

This may be similar to https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOAU-I-15 in that the desire is to write to an operator console. To expand on this idea, I would like to have a reply option that will block the caller until a reply is issue...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
about 8 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

new function for current timestamp

I would a cobol function to retrieve the current system timestamp with the higher possible precision like STCKE or Db2 SET CURRENT TIMESTAMP. Optionally a parameter could drive the required precision of the timestamp (same way as the current times...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 15 Future consideration

Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Add Support for Multi-Target Global Mirror Introduced in DS8900F Release 9.4

This would allow us to take two distinct sets of Safeguarded Copies from a single environment, each set making use of different parameters. For instance, we could thus address the requirements of the business (captures every 30 minutes, kept for 1...
4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Collect data provider info for outbound z/OS Connect server

As per TS017415564, Citi needs to send performance and other critical operational data for zOS connect outbound servers to zLDA. These includes but not limited to request URI/endpoint used, response received from provider and https codes.
4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Default SMU Panel with INGPLEX Functionality

We're users of the INGPLEX commands with the TN3270 Panels. Some functionality is really useful such as the INGPLEX IPL, SVCDUMP, SLIP etc. panels. We would like to see a default panel within SMU which has the same functionality as the TN3270 Pane...
7 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration