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Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Trailing Quote

AAM requires the trailing quote be entered to complete the data set name on the control member panel. ISPF applications commonly making the trailing quote mark optional to improve ease of use. AAM will issue a confusing error message indicating th...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Variable re-use

The AAM ISPF dialogs should remember last used dataset names and entries to improve usability. Especially the control member dialogs.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Short Message Support

When performing functions under the control member management menu it would be good if the product took advantage of the ISPF short message field to indicate actions like member saved, syntax check successful, unsuccessful, Etc.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automatic clear out old PROG and TRAN errors from the STATS file.

SA automation creates error entries in the SA STATS files for IMS and CICS transaction and program entries. These entries never get cleared out, so the STATS file can slowly grow over time. As programs and transactions can change over time (partic...
over 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Support of SQL Merge statements in the make / build process

Complex merge statements in the SQL command are not yet supported in the make / build process.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

DWC Display of Script/JCL

But now, our users is pursuing the job log displayed from DWC to include the script/JCL of the job itself as in SCRPTLIB or script.sh in job output folder. Is it possible for you to: 1. Update the code of DWC to include the script.sh to the out.lo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance handling of SDF user data

When a system joins an SAplex and when the RESYNC FP command is used, a user status tree defined with an &SDFCxxx variable should be handled at the focal point in the same manner as the Configuration Refresh Monitoring tree. That is, the entir...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SHUTDOWN needs more selections than just NORM, IMMED and FORCE

Require the ability to have different defined SHUTINIT, SHUTNORM, SHUTIMMED and SHUTFORCE types similar that of STARTUP function. To permit different types of NORMAL shutdown commands.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance JVM Keystore resiliency if bad certificate encountered

Today, a JVM that utilizes SSL will earmark a keystore/keyring as invalid if any certificate within the keystore/keyring is missing a private key, regardless of it other certificates are valid and the problematic certificate is not even used withi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration