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Omegamon for z/OS to display SHARED and DEDICATED utilization for all processors types i.e. GCPs, zIIPs, IFLs and ICFs

How to monitor CPU usage when having a mix of shared and dedicated processors. We have a setup where we are using shared IFLs for our z/VM LPARs running our Linux on Z workloads, and we have dedicated IFLs for our SSC LPAR running the IDAA on Z. I...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Shared Resources Report - add more details

On the Shared Resources Reports - include more information and group together. For example: on the JCL Physical Dataset shared resources report - include information on the report or allow for a detailed report to show all the JCL & datasets e...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Wand user in case no CLOSE statements in CBL program

ZUnit test failure due to dataset compare issue with missing CLOSE statement. So to summarize the issue, test case that creates non text datasets (aka with packed decimal fields) fail as the ZUnit compare can’t seem to recognize the datasets are t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow to use RACF as keystore database for E2E Automation

The E2E Automation allows to have secured SSL-communication beetween the E2E-systems. Therefore you have to define some SSL-Keys. The configuration dialog within the feature allows to specify the name of the keystore inside the JAVA-Environment. T...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) > 2042 TOD support - address most likely IBM dependencies in customer code

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide > 2042 su...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Authentication Server (DEX) for Concurrent users login/usage at a time.

Authentication Server (DEX) is present in our current ADDI version 6.1.1 for Authenticate users but if we enable DEX concurrent users cannot use analyse client(zos explorer) at a time. below is the IBM case we raise for reference TS013538333 Pleas...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Future consideration

Please add LIKE & IN predicates to WHERE

Please add support for the IN and LIKE predicates to the WHERE clause of update definitions to simplify the code.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Dynamic exit support for EQQUX007

Many tools use the EQQUX007 exit point to collect information about IZWS job details. Only one exit implementation may be used as so it means that if multiple users want to leverage this exit, implementing code at the client side must be recompile...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

idletimout statistics

Please provide the ability to display the idletimeout value and the number of idletimeout counter for the display; also in explorer. The ability to view this information not available in the product. The idletimeout value can be viewed in the .ini...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Menu manager migration

IDz should support a smooth migration of menu manager to higher IDz version.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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