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Local MQ Queue name as opposed to Queue Manager only

Where MQ Queues are part of an end to end flow, please externalise to AppD the Local MQ Queue names as opposed to only the Queue Managers. This will be beneficial where multiple queues are connected to a single Queue manager and remove doubt about...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
3 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 0 Under review

In OMEGATOM v5.6 the Performance Summary panel should show all regions, as OMEGAMON CU v5.3 did

Description-The number of regions listed on the Performance Summary panel does not match the total number of regions under the CICSPLEX Name on the All Active CICSplexes panel. Need to have all regions listed, not just the ones with active transac...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

UKO-Agent should have his own Messages in zOS SYSLOG

We have the need to control and automate messages from the UKO agent. So if something changes in a Key Dataset (e.g. CKDS) with UKO, we need to be able to react from zOS. Actually, the only way to be aware of changes there is to analyse SMF data. ...
about 2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 1 Under review

Solicitamos que EXX con seguridad pueda contemplar un ‘APPL=nombre_aplicacion’ de tal manera que el aplication name profile sea consistente e idéntico en las distintas LPARs y de esta manera se pueda utilizar la autenticación con passticket sin problema”

Disponemos de dos LPARs en nuestro entorno de Producción (EX83 y EX90) y queremos utilizar una VIPA distribuida de acceso a estas LPARs. Queremos montar nodos EntireX (EXX) con seguridad (en cada LPAR) y utilizar passticket para autenticar a los u...
about 2 months ago in EntireX 1 Under review

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file.Refer TS016428390
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Collect data provider info for outbound z/OS Connect server

As per TS017415564, Citi needs to send performance and other critical operational data for zOS connect outbound servers to zLDA. These includes but not limited to request URI/endpoint used, response received from provider and https codes.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Syntax highlighting for Python

Now z/OS include Python in z/OS, to encounrage the adoption of Python, IDz should support syntax highlight for Python
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Under review

JES output - download to PC all at once (TS017049927)

Please see ticket TS017049927. Ticket question: I am trying to download a list of JES OUTPUTS to my PC. I see you can export individual ones easily but dont want to do this for each one. I tried highlighting all the output, clicking FILE>EXPORT...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Under review

Add ability to remove specific CMDFLOW data from DB2 tables based on CMDFLOW_ID

When CMDFLOW data is loaded into the DB2 tables it can't easily be removed. There is no batch job or plugin capability to delete the records based on the CMDFLOW_ID. This means the table can't be cleaned up when work with the command flow is finis...
about 2 months ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review