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Allow system symbols in started task parameters

Please allow system symbols in all parameters for the decision support started tasks.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

IBM RFE for CTG To Support Insertion of AppDynamics Unique Transaction ID Into ODR Data Field

Our Mainframe event Acquisition System (MEAS) software product is integrated with AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor (APM). This integration allows APM to monitor transactions that cross platform boundaries, such as from a Windows Applica...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

choosing different splunk hec endpoints

We are in need to choose/use another splunk hec endpoint which is impossible at the moment.We do need at least use the splunk hec raw endpoint for sending data which need to be processed in splunk before they are entering the splunk index.e.g. com...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Future consideration

Sort jobs by start time order in Plan

Our users reported that the jobs in Plan are not sorted in start time order. Below is the output of jobstream in conman. And please see the screenshot that the jobs are sorted by start time. May I know if it is possible to amend the conman output ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Enable CTC to leverage TCT for network transfers

Where possible it would be good if CTC could leverage TCT as it network transfer mechanism which would effectively enable serverless data movement and reduce overall resource consumption.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include a some kind of message or mechanism to show in the log how many extents the data set has

1. A parm to set from how many extents the message will be recorded in the log;2. Based on parm from the item 1 the message will be triggered to be showed in the log. Example: If I set the parm to 200, and if the data set has 200 extents the messa...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Application Discovery : Export Feature in Nested Cross Application Call Graph

Hello This RFE request is mainly concerned about export possibility in the nested cross application call graph. We have learned that version v5.1.0.7 has new cross call graph feature., meaning ADDI not only retrieve the border programs(ones that h...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Please add TIME_RES lookup tables to more IDSZ components

Please add TIME_RES lookup tables to more IDSZ components. Currently there are only two TIME_RES tables for CP (CP_TIME_RES) and MVSPM (MVSPM_TIME_RES) components and we are looking this feature for all components
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Future consideration

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc.We are currently using table MVSPM_DEVICE_H to retrieve DASD usage and response data. The data has one record per DASD device. A key metric for us is to have response and...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Future consideration

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