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Possibility to automate ProcOps ISQ-messages in order to write it to the syslog - i.e. defined capacity changes

We want to automate ISQ-messages in order to write the into the syslog.Thats not completly possible, because they are written by PIPEs without an EXPOSE stage.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Encrypt the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards

IRS would like to ask if the TPF lab would consider encrypting the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards. Currently it is not-encrypted (its on the LAN, not the WAN, its local traffic only). But we’re being asked to verify tha...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Comparison operator in Resource override file

Hi, The resource override yaml file has options to give the filters such as "is" "is not". It would be helpful to have options like "greater than", "less than", "greater than equal", "less than equal". These are helpful to filter resources. Ex: Se...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Update JAVA to honor default Keyring certificate

Update JAVA so it will honor the default Keyring certificate instead of picking the first personal certificate it finds in a Keyring. JAVA is being invoked by products like Liberty for z/OS server in a JVM and Java is using JSSE to get digital cer...
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TWS product development to support zcentric agents in a Natted environment

Need to be ableto support Zcentric agents in a Natt'd enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

INGGROUP should have a parm to prevent entire group outages

The inggroup now accepts RECYCLE to perform a psuedo rolling recycle of the group. You can specify CHUNK to indicate how many members of that group should be processed in parallel. The one thing it does not do is ensure that the previous resource ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time Should be in XE and 3270
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add SQL counts columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables

Add columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables :SQL_SELECT SQL_INSERT SQL_UPDATE SQL_MERGE SQL_DELETE SQL_OPEN SQL_FETCH SQL_CLOSE
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration