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Setting restriction for updating job status changes in TWS CP

Please enable the prompt confirmation in TWS panel (5.3) for changing the job status. Currently, there is no prompt confirmation for changing the job status via 5.3 -> M (an operation) -> 6 (General) -> Update status . Due to this, human ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

JCL includes could be visible on Analyze client for analysis

Hi Team, If there is a option to analyze JCL include usage on JCL's and INCLUDE's usage on JOBS will be more beneficial for a project team. Currently we can anaylze procs, programs, datasets usage in jobs...please amend the process to analyze INCL...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Known ENQ conflict overrides possible other important conflicts in LPAR overview

we are running a z/OS sysplex with 2 systems. There a software uses an ENQ mechanism to control that only one instance of a STC is active. Since this ENQ is activated while IPL, it's always the one with the longest possible enqueue wait time, but ...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Db2 pureXML Parser

DSN_XMLVALIDATE failed because of this pattern in the XML schema: <xs:pattern value="[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+](|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+]|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+ ]{1,2}[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+])"/>
about 4 years ago in XML for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Log on at remote systems when sources with copy libraries on property group

Even if you have sources with an associated property group configured with Copy Libraries pointing to a SYSLIB on a remote system, when you open a source with copys not present in the local SYSLIB, the copybooks are marked as not found. If in the ...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

KCPTASH view limitation

In the KCPTASH view, when we select a task that was activated by a channel/IP port on a region, the Related section does not display the external IP address/port that activated the task For further questions, please get in touch with Nicola Giangi...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
4 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify Clock time Interval for Cyclic day file definitions

Current limitation of trying to use CICS PA Panels is when defining day cyclic smf files, it is treated as midnight to midnight cut. In reality our smf data is from around 4am - 4am (Staggered between different LPARS). This means when generating a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

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