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Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

System Automation, add "members=yes" option to INGDATA

In System Automation for z/OS, add the "MEMBERS=YES" option to the INGDATA interface. This would behave the same as for the INGLIST command: expanding a passed APG name into its component members.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Support mixed case in field „Applparms“

Today data entered in the field “Applparms” (INGREQ or INGSET) will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this field.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for Push-Only Traffic from IMS via z/OS Connect API Requester

We are seeing an increased requirement for the mainframe transactional systems to publish updates to distributed systems. Products like Change Data Capture allow us to do this for data that is logged to database or file (typically structured data)...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Need explicit Resp information in CICS Application Events

When creating a CICS application event, the user cannot specify a filter using the Response code, only on OK or NOT OK. When this is coupled with not being able to include the response codes in the emitted data (that I can find) I cannot drive act...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide Alert capability in Omegamon/IMS Classic for TPIPE QCT

The current alert facility in Omegamon/IMS Classic does not have the capability to inform a user that a particular TPIPE has something queued in it. The QCT field in the /DIS TMEMBER TPIPE command is what we want to be trapped and reported on.
almost 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Update EVJ120I message to include OPTEXT data.

We have automation code that uses INGTWS/INGOPC command to obtain OPTEXT data for a failing batch job. It would simplify this process if the OPTEXT data was made available on the EVJ120I error message (at the end).
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Need to view 64 Bit Storage in CICS CEDF utilities

The various flavours of the CICS Execution Diagnostic Utility (CEDF) allow me to view storage with 31 bit addresses but increasingly I need to be able to view storage with 64 bit addresses. For example a JCICS program placing data in a container w...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Endpoint Descriptor - New Connection Error Threshold Element

Allow customer-specific settings to define at what point (counter) errors experienced during the endpoint descriptor processing will force an automated system undeploy of the failing endpoint descriptor.
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration