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Action Command should have information in the SYSLOG about the command and it's executer (userid)

All action commands like CANCEL should list some information about the person, who actually enters the command.This request applies to all system commands you can send in e3270UI as well as to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). It is impo...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Filter for specific filename/filetype during BKRLIST of SFS filespace.

We are a large user of SFS and often have the same filename/filetype in different SFS file spaces or directory paths. On the initial BKRLIST panel there is no ability to filter on device or path, so it’s really cumbersome to find the file you want...
over 1 year ago in Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM 1 Future consideration

z/TPFDF read processing should validate and fix backward chain fields as it reads forward

As TPFDF read processing reads forward through a given subfile from the prime block to the 1st overflow, the 2nd overflow, and so on, TPFDF should validate that the backward chain in the next block contains the file address of the previous block. ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

CPU consumption of the batch sub modules

need the number of calls and the consumption of the sub modules called by a cobol program in batch in iZPCA tables.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Job Duration Alert (supports different alert threshold for different Jobs)

As per TWS for z/OS V9.5, apart from new feature allow user defined ALERT/ACTION if an operation does not start or complete, I would like to have an alert for jobs that is in late (late means that a job is started and its "expected duration" is pa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance ZCHCH to include a parameter for ONLY the count of chains (not the display of all chains) as well as MAX (or ALL) parameter in place of numeric for number of chains

Parameter for COUNT of chains would eliminate the need to ZPAGE through page after page of displays of addresses to get to the count. Then if chain addresses were needed, a redisplay without the COUNT parameter could be done. Parameter for MAX (or...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Logrec / EREP recovery process needs to be reworked

System Automation provides a means to recover logrec via the following 4 message: IFB040I SYS1.LOGREC AREA IS FULL, hh.mm.ssIFB060E SYS1.LOGREC NEAR FULLIFB080E LOGREC DATA SET NEAR FULL, DSN=dsnameIFB081I LOGREC DATA SET IS FULL,hh.mm.ss, DSN=dsn...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Create a functional entry that displays the CVE's, APARS and programs loaded into the z/TPF operating system

This would be extremely useful for our delivery of internal audit requests relating to CVE vulnerabilities on the z/TPF platform. As discussed in the past a functional entry should display the CVE's, APARs associated with the CVE and programs that...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

public Compare API for plugin usage

See case TS002883929, currently there is no public IDz API for opening a compare editor in the IDz client while this functionality does already exist(when you select two datasets in the Remote Systems view and select the 'Compare With > Each Ot...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

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