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Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
6 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify Clock time Interval for Cyclic day file definitions

Current limitation of trying to use CICS PA Panels is when defining day cyclic smf files, it is treated as midnight to midnight cut. In reality our smf data is from around 4am - 4am (Staggered between different LPARS). This means when generating a...
6 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

IDz - Extending JCL Property Group

IDz works with Property Groups in order to be able to detect for instance copybooks. This should be enhanced for JCL members so we can use the include. This does work for remote members, but we need it as well for elements in the Project Explorer,...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Select CICS Task History for a range of regions simultaneously.

Seeing the behaviour of a transaction in all CICS regions where it executes as opposed to one region at a time would simplify certain monitoring and trouble-shooting tasks. Being able to specify additional contexts for CICS Task History Summary - ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Please improve IZPCA CP Cognos Reports for large z/OS environments

The IZPCA Cognos CP reports generally do not work well for a large zSeries environment. We had a meeting with you and demonstrated areas for improvement. Here are a couple of the key areas: Include an option to select the CEC names in CEC level re...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide support for remote libraries in the local preprocessors in IDz

(This idea was originally logged as case: TS009687272) We are using GIT repositories for developing Cobol and PL/1 sources in IDz. Because these sources reside in the locally cloned repositories or editors can only use local property groups for r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

CDPz messaging modification to support data consumption by monitoring products.

Create message event separator for monitoring software (ie. Splunk) consumption. This will benefit all users in managing data collection with simplifying consumption protocols for monitoring tooling, providing target for each event message. Add re...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Comparison, to show volumes not included

Kyndryl for Poste Italiane would like to set up an alert system to detect existing volumes that are not part of SMS copy pools. Due to configuration errors, they had a major production outage in April. Since it's not something that OMEGAMON for St...
6 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Needs more information

Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Change GA date of new GDPS releases

Is there a reason why GDPS doesn’t release new releases in September to coincide with the new release of z/OS ? Would it be possible for GDPS to move to releasing software in the (same) September timeframe ? I ask as (we), Citi, time our builds of...
12 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration