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SA AMs to Support Agents in Multiple Timezones

Enhance SAz/OS to allow the agents running under an AM to run in different local timezones. Currently, if an AM does a failover/takeover to an SAM running in a different timezone, SVPs and other time-related elements could be adversely affected. W...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Authentication for BuildClient/BuildClientConfiguration

Hi Moving BuildClient & BuildClientConfiguration from ADDI server to "normal" windows client is possible but it's not possible then to control access to BuildClient. Wish to add authentication/authorization to BuildClient/BuildClientConfigurat...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Provide method to help automate the missing SMF rcds when SMF Extractor is down on a Lpar.

It is possible for SMF Extractor to be down and you can lose SMF data to be collected. The only way to collect those missing rcds for that Lpar is to run a COLLECT and estimate a time. It would be nice if SMF Extractor would give 2 timestamps, 1 o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

enhance the command IMBRCST to allow complex conditions

Today the command IMBRCST allows or conditions to specify the receivers of the brodcast. In HAO implementations you must define more than one condition to address the users that you want to inform. For example: You have configured a HAO solution w...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Add RMF 74 subtype 10 support

Starting with IBM z15, IBM relocated EADM/zEDC and SCM (Storage Class Memory) metrics from RMF 74 subtype 9 to subtype 10. These performance metrics are key for measuring z/OS system, application performance, yet with IzPCA, there is no longer zED...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Future consideration

Please add JCL include into explore project tab

The JCL includes are loaded into the AD project, it would be good if it can be viewed in the explore project tab under the resource type drop down list. I'm aware the JCL includes can be viewed in search in files, but I had to only select JCL incl...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SQLCODE = -204 when updating System Tables.

When updating the SYSTEM table with Z Decision Support V1.9.0, the screen display was "System tables are updated successfully".However, there was a table space that failed to create, and "SQLCODE = -204" was recorded in DRLOUT. In this case, pleas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

SMU - add RESET (Autodown) option in Rest API

We would like to have a RESET option in the SA Rest API, as is in SMU. This RESET then resets an application to the correct state, as you do in SA with AUTODOWN.For example, if an application is STOPPED and you want it to return to the correct state.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration