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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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ITOM Print to Dataset

In these days, most of printing need to be made to datasets for subsequent delivery , and not for printers. This is a facility that all ITOM users mention and request. The actual processes only permits to print to spool when using ISPF and to spoo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Have TOM leverage the z/OS parallel sysplex for high availability services

Resilient to infrastructure failure since an instance of TOM would run on all LPARs participating in highly available services
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

IBM Output Manager support for non US-code page in BJTCUNLD

When loading the ITOM catalog/index from an IDXOUT file exported from CA-VIEW (SAR), one of the steps involves running a sequence of jobs from the customised SBJTSAMP called BJTJCXV1, BJTJCXV2 abd BJTJCXV3.In the last step of the BJTJCXV2 the prog...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide audit tracking within ITOM

Create an auditing process for ITOM config tables to keep track of changes to the admin objects (selectors, archive attributes, report defs, etc. i.e. whatever you can unload with UBU). Enable by creating triggers on the admin tables to record the...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add notification WTOs to ITOM

ITOM should provide process completion notifications suitable for interaction with system automation and job scheduling systems to enable job schedule management based on internal ITOM events. At a minimum notifications should include MSGID, funct...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Required Disclaimer for reports

we have a standard disclaimer we attached to all ITOM output: "The information herein may contain Confidential or ..." We have this for ITOM ISPF, ITOM Web, all the hardcopy output. Would it be possible to include this for ITOM generated emails?
about 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Custom CodePage for e-mailed PDF Reports

All reports we create to be sent via email as PDF attachment which contain Greek characters do not appear correct as all Greek characters into the PDF appear as garbage. It is obvious that there is no proper codepage conversion and there is no opt...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Lock the Navigation bar at the top of the page in ITOMWeb

Lock the navigation bar at the top of the page in all pages displayed in ITOMWeb
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Delivered

RACF groups in distribution lists

I would like to see the ability to use RACF groups in distribution lists.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

Increase archive GDG limit from 255 to 999 in Tivoli Output Manager

When using copies based retention in Tivoli Output Manager, the current limit of 255 is based on the traditional GDG limit. V2 GDGs allow up to 999 versions to be created. Tivoli Output Manager should be changed to allow 999 versions to be kept wi...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered