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LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reset Threshold and interval setting in Netview Automaion table

The THRESHOLD and Interval conditions in the Netview automation table are very useful functions for throttling and isolating specific occurrences that should be automated on. Would like a means of resetting these values when certain conditions are...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

ZOS Connect EE : No CPU in SMF reccords

There no CPU consumption in SMF records , 120-11 or 123-1. This mandatory for us to get this value in statistic to be able to monitor easily the api requests.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Future consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

API Requester Security flow jwt-bearer

With the two OAuth flows supported today by z/OS Connect: Client credentials (client_id + client_secret) Resource owner password credentials (client_id + client_secret + username + password) If we want to call a remote API from a mainframe applica...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

RACF granulation of CICS tran CEKL SET PURGE, FORCEPURGE and KILL commands

We want to allow the app devs to purge or forcepurge misbehaving transactions but not to kill them, for example. CEKL/CEMT SET KILL is hazardous to address space integrity in ways purge or forcepurge are not. We don't want app devs to be able to...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration