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Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Need Cross Application Forward/Backward call chain reports across projects added to UI

Need reporting capabilities added to Analyze Client UI with an exportable report that allows one to see and filter Cross Application Forward and Backward Call Chain. Reporting capabilities should include capabilities to filter and export data by 1...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

CPSM BATCHREP error handling.

Using program EYU9XDBC to run BATCHREP in batch. Once the program has managed to connect to CPSM a return code of 0 is always returned regardless of the outcome. I do appreciate that the request is offloaded to run in the CMAS and the output is pr...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point - No 2

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times. We want to know the number of calls of a sp...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
11 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Non-display of IBM transactions/programs in CICS Explorer & RD/z (SHARE requirement SSCICS12003)

Provide a check box in CICS Explorer that would allow IBM supplied CICS transactions and programs to NOT show in the appropriate tabs. Looking at programs with CICS Explorer and RD/z shows a "wealth" of IBM provided transactions and programs (whic...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration