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Need to filter on Jobs that are NP - NOP oper

There is a need to filter on operations that have been set to NP in panel ID EQQSOPFP. This would be much like filtering on operations set to MH (Manual Hold) NP - NOP (no operation). IWSz will set the status of the operation to complete when the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add command to flush z/OS Connect authentication cache

We are running z/OS Connect 3.0.18 on z/OS 2.2 and have the following defined in server.xml: <authentication id="Basic" cacheEnabled="true" /> This results in user's credentials being cached for the default 10 minutes. However, even after we...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Missing Documentation for Installing IBM Cognos Analytics (Part of IZPCA) onto a Linux on SystemZ IFL(s).

Customer is currently attempting to utilize IZPCA on their zSystem Environment and use Cognos Analytics (part of IZPCA) installed on a zLinux IFL for available dashboards. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zp-and-ca/3.1.0?topic=reporting-implementing-co...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide CICS TS Message Utility Features in CICS TS5.*

I use the CICS Message Utility to modify the DFHAC2206 abend message such that it says "DFHAC2206 HH:MM:SS APPLID Transaction XXXX failed with abend AZCT. If abend is AZCT, a timeout has occurred. Re-enter transaction to continue."I have the timeo...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Create IIDR plugin for TDS/IZPCA

The z/OS Capture agent for IIDR (aka IBM CDC) has the ability to cut performance metrics as SMF records. However there is no 'off the shelf' facility to store these records for subsequent analysis. Both TDS and IZPCA have DB2 backend databases to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add INGRUN to the SA API

Due to a user case, it is important for us to have an option to control the RunModes (INGRUN) via the SA Operation API (endpoint). It is especially important to select a run mode, listing the possible RunModes is also useful.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple applications to create association data

Would like to have the capability for multiple applications to add data to the CICS association data. This could be in the form of a name value pair. This would allow multiple applications or monitors to flow data without interfering with each oth...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

INGLKUP and DISPTREE to work through HasMember APGs

Please update the DISPTREE and INGLKUP REQ=ANALYSE to work through APG HasMember relationships. Neither indicate relationships that are via HasMember groups.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

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