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Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Users want to know when they need to rebind their IBM File Manager for z/OS packages

[Current Product & Version]-IBM File Manager for z/OS V15 -z/OS V2.5-Db2 12 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is planning to upgrade Db2 for z/OS and IBM File Manager for z/OS. PLAN(yyyy/...
5 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Onboard confluent-kafka python packages to IBM AI toolkit repository

This is an essential python package that is widely used by our clients in distributed platform, this package will provide the necessary support for our developers to interact with confluent kafka product on mainframe.
10 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

DWC should not be installed in z/OS UNIX in a zFS filesystem with read/write access

Within the current design, we would like to see a clear segregation between the files which REQUIRE write access from the files for which READ access would be sufficient, within the "USERDIR" directory. The standard executables should be delivered...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration