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Allow suppression of 'F'alse alerts from Situations.

As documented for Tivoli/Omegamon situation alerts:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/om-shared?topic=tos-how-write-message-console-situation "The message is produced when the situation is true (T) or false (F)." We would like an option to supress the 'F...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Very Large Tables and their usage

Need a better understand of what these very large tables, such as the DB2_ENDUSER_* tables, are used for given they use 1000s of Cyls of dasd. With a better understanding of usage customer can decide if the tables are even needed. And drop them if...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Developer for Z control-flow to number or order the called sub-routines within the calling routine

When viewing a program control flow diagram it would be great to see the sequence that the subroutines are called within a calling routine. This would help provide a much deeper understanding of the actual program logic. Also some indicator or cou...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

File Manager Function Cost Estimation

In File Manager online(ispf) workflows add CPU cost estimation capability.
over 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in ZUnit

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

HOD HTML Override Functionality with Web Start

With browsers ending support for NPAPI plugins (with the exception of Internet Explorer, whose last version will be 11 and will seemingly be retired with the end of the Windows 10 support lifecycle), the direction is to move to using Web Start cli...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

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