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z/TPF Rest Service Monitoring Dashboard

Problem Statement: How do I know what services are in use on my system and how much system resources they are using?Idea: Dashboard shows a list of services available on the system. For each service it shows: calls per second, success/failures rat...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

An operator can slowly and selectively increase the amount of traffic that uses new code to ensure the code is stable.

Currently, when code is loaded to a production system, 100% of the traffic on the box can use that code. If the loadset is unstable, dumps may occur, system stability may be impacted, service level agreements may be violated, and ultimately end us...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Agent Situational Action Origination Point

In an environment with multiple TEM Servers the agents don't have the option to choose which TEMS will use the action item for a Situational Action. It defaults to the TEMS the agent reports directly to. In my environment I have a TEMS on z/OS and...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

IMS Fast Path

Scotiabank is replacing Xpeditor with IBM Debugger v14.x. Scotiabank Client asked for isolation support for IMS Fast Path by User ID. James Rice informed us that this feature is not available. Please kindly assist if this can be done easily? Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

PL1&Cobol template formatting

In the new Cobol & PL1 editors, the templates you can access , either through "surround with" or by ctrl+space does not respect the capitalization rules in preferences/cobol(or PL1)/editor/formatter.Content assist does. So your only option is ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Future consideration

3110W bucket / Control_T inventory

Look for a "*" and "DFHSM" to be considered in the 3110W error bucket.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Future consideration

Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management should generate SMF records for EAM functions

Currently Tivoli AAM generates SMF records for the reporting of Abend events detected and acted on. Recently Tivoli AAM was enhanced to support Enhanced Allocation Management as well as abend detection and prevention. When Tivoli AAM performs an E...
about 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance Tivoli AAM to allow multiple DSNAME_QUALIFIER specifications

Currently Tivoli AAM only allows 1 DSNAME_QUALIFIER specification per Include or Exclude definition. This parm supports a positional parameter which identifies which qualifier is to be compared. Only allowing one specification prevents an Include/...
about 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support norm2 in XL Fortran 2008

As part of the Fortran 2008+ standards, norm2 is widely supported by various compiler toolchains. This RFE is to request support for the norm2 intrinsic be added to IBM XL Fortran 2008.
almost 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 1 Future consideration

Stopping an Aplication Group

Is it possible to get a new flag with the INGREQ command to stop only the group? So, I can decide, if I want a propagation or not?
about 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 7 Future consideration