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Omegamon to show memory CEC Capacity

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent memory amount (capacity) for the CEC ? For example: CEC1 has 1TB of memory, where LPAR-A is allocating 256 GB and LPAR-B is allocating 256GB. In this case we woul...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Omegamon to display (VFM) Virtual Flash Memory on CEC level

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent Virtual Flash Memory (VFM) amount for the CEC ? A panel sumarizing the capacity, and the allocation for each LPAR. For example: CEC1 has 1TB of VFM, where LPAR-A ...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to display VH, VM and VL

After IPLs, OOCoD, CBUs, planned or unplanned weight or logical processors changes, it's necessary to double check the number of current number of CPs Vertical High, Vertical Med and Vertical Low. Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS ...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhanced JCCQ monitoring

IBM zWS issues message EQQZ106W for JCCQ, for example EQQZ106W 012 % OF QUEUE JCCQ IN USE If the trend is increasing, zWS will issue more EQQZ106W messages, but if it's decreasing or dropped below the threshold, we never know. There needs to be a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Reduce CLNO errors by adding a parameter to cause the retries to be done over a reasonable time interval, instead of all within one second

Currently, if there is high activity in the datastore task, the 10 retries done when trying to retrieve the joblog all occur within one second, if a slight wait were introduced, the CLNO error could be avoided. For example from the case mentioned:...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

PL/I Formatter doesn't work if file is UTF-8

PL/I-Files with UTF-8 (e.g. german Characters)
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Speedup the release of license after stopping a ZD&T instance

zD&T License server release license too slow when an instance is stopped.Shutdown takes approx,. 1 min, 20 secs. After the shutdown it takes more than 6 minutes before the license are released. In total almost 8 minutes.This could lead to that...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

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