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RTMC NVP metric support

Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Re-order the JES output results from a Remote zOS File Search when a PDSE member list is wildcarded.

When using IDz and performing a Remote zOS File Search that uses a wild-carded PDSE member selection (e.g. PPH2*) rather than the entire PDSE, that the output that is presented back to the user in JES output from the job is not in the same order a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Option to have spaces treated as zeros at Runtime

Our COBOL V6 migration has been painful and slow. Much of this due to 'invalid data'. The biggest pain for our applications folks are when copy books and linkage areas initialized to spaces at the 01 level. To code around this in V6 is a lot of ex...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Modify INGREQ Command Dialogs AOFKVFY1

When issuing a STOP vote against a grouip, update the logic so that the INGREQ verify panel AOFKVFY1 shows ALL affected resource, not only those defined directly to the group.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Display dataspaces alloacte for region

In the classic interface under U.K we could see the size of the dataspace allocation for the region. I did not see this facility in the E3270. For tracking the growth and managing the size of our utilization of data tables to is very important to ...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamic facility to re-order columns on summary screens

When dealing with Summary screens, to reorder the screen or add/remove columns from the screen requires that we edit the workspace in the WENU, which is difficult and affects all users of the system. We would like the ability to change column orde...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Take keys from IBM Cloud under management in EKMF Workstation

want only one central key management system across enterprise and this covers also cloud environment
9 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Planned for future release

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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