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Reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF data collection

TPFDF open/close routines in UBC0 collect data for ECB resource monitor, CDC, and TPFDF data collection. These collections run constantly but are rarely used. A switch to control these counters would reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Add Automatic retention / expiration similar to CA Views ERO

add the process of assigning retention criteria within the product, and a batch or automated process that expired older archives and reports
almost 13 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Platform deactivation without deactivation of bundles

We have > 20 and soon > 50 applications on a platform. At the moment it is not possible to deactivate a platform without deactivating the apps. This is very bad. If we want to add a cics region in production on the fly to a platform region g...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Explorer Virtual Reality Support - Operators View

At the moment there is only omegamon to visualise running transactions in cics and to see the cics environment (CICSPLEX) this is very difficult to do it in a simple way, because there is too much information in it and you need to be a specialist ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 bundle phasein support

We have the developer requirement to quickly test his application in test state. For this we will use zospt to create a new cics for the developer. He then has his own region to test the application. If the developer compiles a modul in a componen...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Cics explorer Enhancement of application activation

The cics explorer we have at the moment is not able to activate and deactivate one ore multiple applications at the same time and move the applicaitons with one step to available state. This habit is very bad, we have to click very often.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Selecting reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.

Having an option to select reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show conditional expression on conditional call and goto links in Program Flow.

To have an option to show conditions on the conditional call and conditional goto links in Program Flow graph in Analyze client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Job Flow graph can display related datasets and their attributes.

Current Job Flow graph only shows job steps.It becomes more useful to understand the structure of jobs if relations between job steps and related datasets are linked in one graph view. It is also preferable if data sets could be displayed with the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Select a job from member name.

Resource type of JCL job in Explore tab in Analyze client lists only names of collected jobs.There shall be an option to select a job from a list of names of data set members that holds it.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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