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CEDA ADD GROUP( ) LIST( ) FIRST or LAST Attribute

We only have 2 options when we ADD group to List in CSD, i.e BEFORE and AFTER.It if difficult wjen you working on huge projects like 200 existing lists, which already contains groups.Ex: If we want to add DB2CONN group in list, it should be added ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IZPCA support for extended format SMF records

Hi all, As discussed on case TS016821698, we want to read SMF record type 1153 (new in ZOS 2.5), JES Monitoring Facility Data, previously written as type 84. IZPCA actually has record type 84 mapped (DRLRS084). Record type 1153 is written using SM...
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

CICS Counter API needs ability to list counters defined

The CICS Counter (and DCounter) APIs, give users the following commands: DEFINE COUNTER and DEFINE DCOUNTERDELETE COUNTER and DELETE DCOUNTERGET COUNTER and GET DCOUNTERQUERY COUNTER and QUERY DCOUNTERREWIND COUNTER and REWIND DCOUNTERUPDATE COUNT...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Make it easy to find the scripts needed to create the DB2 history database on a non-z/OS platform (UNIX, LINUX,WINDOWS)

Currently, the DB2 history file definitions for a database on z/OS DB2 are provided in SEQQSAMP while the skips needed for the other platforms are only available in a CD image (ISO) that can be obtained by ordering the zWS product via SHOP z SERIE...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Be able to issue commands to all IMS systems in a plex at the same time

In the e3270ui need a workspace that allow us to issue commands to all IMS in a IMSPLEX. With the KIPCMD workspace we can only send commands to a given IMS.
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Enhance DCAT command to support GDGORDER (LIFO/FIFO)

[11:57:39]GSM@estonia /u/home/gsm $ dls svtlog.syslogd.es.attls.* | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo -n {} - ; dcat {} | head -1 | cut -c1-15" 2>/dev/null Results in the following SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS.G4115V00 -Jul 23 16:29:31SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Capacity figure for LCP captures

Would be good to have a capacity used figure for each LCP capture in the GDPS LCP panel. Would help with capacity planning and also give an idea of the amount of time required for a restore. Could either be capacity per capture or a running total ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Ability for Zos controller to push zcentric agent upgrades

This will assist in the ability to upgrade hundreds of zcentric agents easily as well as keeping the product as up to date as possible.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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