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Ensure runtime metrics collection captures a rare or desired messages.

Some utilities or messages occur extremely rarely (like once every 5 or 60 minutes). If RTMC is sampling 300 ECBs/sec of a 10k/sec workload, it is highly unlikely that utility/message of interest will be captured in the normal course of NVP collec...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Dump history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. It would be advantageous to show on these graphs when a dump occurs. This may be particularly useful in light of idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm....
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Loadset history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. Many of these metrics can be affected by the activation of new code (actual CPU, CPU used by a particular message type/NVP, ECBs in use, etc). It would be adv...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add support for message-driven JBP

Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

E/AS Mutiple ServerLocation support

All other products (ITM, etc) can send EIF events to multiples Omminibus servers simultaneously but not Netview EAS.Today we need to start a second EAS task to achieve this goal. I think that functionality could be useful for other customes too.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to view and track parameter/data flow across program call boundaries in and ADDI Program Call Graph

Providing this capability will help to better assess program dependencies from a parameter/data perspective in a graphical capacity. This becomes important when assessing how to refactor/segment programs into modular COBOL services where parameter...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

Incorrect Cross-reference of data names with CICS integrated translator

The "Cross-reference section" in a COBOL compile listing correctly contains the line number references to the COBOL data items contained in the EXEC CICS statements when the CICS stand-alone translator is used, but does not contain the line number...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Prevent Duplicate TIMER's

Currently if an Operator is modified in the Policy Database for a TIMER, and a new ACF is refreshed into SA it causes a duplication in TIMER's: one for the previously defined Operator and one for the newly defined Operator. Create SA functionality...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Add feature to chose Local or UTC Time in APPLYUNTIL function

We are very interessed to use point in time recovery in TWS with option APPLYUNTIL (enhancement APAR PH56381 (10.1 SPE3)) but need an option to choose the time used to be coherent with other products like DB2 or applications if we make a global re...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Upgrade using AD plugin is not a good experience

Customer has issues with AD plugin upgrade as it has to be locally pushed to every desktop for users for the product. If a user accidentally updates the AD plugin and if other users are at a different level , then the project is corrupted. Custome...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

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