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Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Reduce CLNO errors by adding a parameter to cause the retries to be done over a reasonable time interval, instead of all within one second

Currently, if there is high activity in the datastore task, the 10 retries done when trying to retrieve the joblog all occur within one second, if a slight wait were introduced, the CLNO error could be avoided. For example from the case mentioned:...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

AD analyse client and AD server shall coexist with different release levels

Requirement is that the AD analyse client and AD server can coexist with different release levels very much like IDz have implemented their support allowing +-2 release difference. Having this will let us upgrade the server and then gradually upgr...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

IMS catalog API (DFS3CATQ) sample program

The customer considers using IMS Catalog API to get DBD or ACB from user program, but no sample program is provided. DBRC API provides a sample program DSPAPSMP in the IMS.ADFSSMPL library. Could you please provide a sample program of IMS Cata...
about 1 year ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

Enable tape level encryption in CTC VTE component

Provide an encryption option with CTC's VTE component to enable host based encryption of system tape.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Endpoint Descriptor - New Connection Error Threshold Element

Allow customer-specific settings to define at what point (counter) errors experienced during the endpoint descriptor processing will force an automated system undeploy of the failing endpoint descriptor.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add Host Connection Emulators (HCE) to PushToClient

Specific configuration settings are required by our RDz 8.5.x and 9.0.1 clients: 1. z/OS Remote System Connections2. Host Connection Emulators (HCEs - one for each Remote System Connection)3. Help Content URLs (enablement/disablement)4. Other Soft...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration