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Be able to issue commands to all IMS systems in a plex at the same time

In the e3270ui need a workspace that allow us to issue commands to all IMS in a IMSPLEX. With the KIPCMD workspace we can only send commands to a given IMS.
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Negative selection on ADID with WAPL

We've been experimenting with negative logic and wildcards in LIST not equal commands with WAPL, but we are not able to get it to work. Thus far we are only able to use fully qualified ADID names in the LIST Not Equal statement, i.e. LIST ADID-NE(...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

INGLIST COMMAND PROVIDE THE ABILITY TO FILTER ON SUSPENDED RESOURCES

You cannot use INGLIST command to filter on suspended resources. You have to use INGVOTE REQ=SUSPEND.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Webservice should fail on missing required field

Webservice should reject the request if a field, which is marked as required, is not specified on the request.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

NetView Threshold Improvement

Improve NetView message trap condition item THRESHOLD to work with not elapsed time period.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

protect requests of EQQUSIN%

If a user requests a modify action against the mcp via EQQUSIN% (OPSTAT,SRSTAT,OPINFO,EQQEVCMD,EQQEVPGM), for example doing a job complete, his action is not checked against RACF like it is done when the user does the similiar action via ISPF or P...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
6 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Debug: ignore an instruction permanently without stopping

This is a reopen on RFE 150425 as it was misunderstood and closed as "delivered". Please add a way to permanently ignore an instruction during a Debug session. The command JUMPTO doesn't help as it stops the debugger and needs to be entered each t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration