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Changing variable substitution for sending emails when an alert condition occurs by the controller task to match the same behavior as job tailoring works

As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to various groups within the company, it is beneficial to minimize the variations in rules for variable substitution for users. Therefor...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Integration of informations about the Boost Class, Speed & zIIP Boost in table KPMZ_LPAR_T

Integrate three columns in tables KPMZ_LPAR_T from SMF70FLA to specify the Boost Class and if Speed or zIIP Boost is active during the current interval : BOOST_CLASS ==> IPL / SHUTDOWN / RECOVERY (From SMF70FLA Bits 13 - 15) 001: IPL 010: Shutd...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
9 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy: Add new System Rule to monitor LU62 connections.

CICS policies currently have the ability to monitor and perform action on MRO and IPIC connection status but lacking the ability to monitor LU62 connection which RTA has the capability of doing so. We have business application that still rely on L...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
4 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T: fields related number of transactions and the response time when HPDBAT is active (OA62758)

Hi all,we work with IZPCA table named KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T to execute analysis on performance at service class level.When HPDBAT is active on DB2 of our systems, fields TRANSACTION and TRAN_ELAPSED_SEC show us misleading informations.On OA61811 (https:...
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enabel the EPILOG in OMEGAMON z/OS in the future

Hi support, In the PID - 5698-T01 , the lastest version in OM-z/OS V550, withdrew the EPILOG support from V530. In the document, the alternately method - RMF III near term history is instead. But we found the RMF III report only get the SYSTEM lev...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Empty results form DB2 query should show column with no entries like previous data source explorer

If you do a query that returns no results there is no visual notification of that fact.
29 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
30 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration