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Group Actions in SA Rest API Server

While most basic functions are available in the SA Rest Operations Server were definitely missing some important ones such as GROUP actions. INGMOVE is a common use within our company for high availability purposes during maintenance. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Authentication based on a Client Certificate (SA Operation Rest Server)

The preference of using a certificate to authenticate instead of Basic Authentication like a username and password. For automating purposes you would prefer not to use Basic Authentication and instead use something like a Client Certificate, espec...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable tape level encryption in CTC VTE component

Provide an encryption option with CTC's VTE component to enable host based encryption of system tape.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IMS transactions abends info in the e3270ui

We need in the e3270ui a workspace where we could see information about abended transactions and abend details including process region, abend code, transaction name, abend date/time,..
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Enable IMS AIBTDLI INQY ENVIRON call to retrieve IMS Function Level

Please refer to IBM case TS002966101 and also note that if this information is entered into the PMR ID: field of the RFE submission URL, the error message "The PMR ID is not valid. The ID should have the format XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ using numbers for the ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Switching between transactions to debug is no longer possible in the new version of Debugger

A test user has registered many transactions, as sometimes one transaction is debugged and sometimes the other. In this case, however, only one transaction should be debugged. With the newly installed version of the debug tool (V16.02), it is now ...
7 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Omegamon history panels

Would be possible to improve the Omegamon history panels and export (PF6) on e3270gui/TOM, including the DATE column ? Possibly choosing the columns to be added on the panel/history file. This would apply to all omegamon products using history fun...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to show Transaction's service class

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for IMS (e3270gui/TOM), the Service Class associated to each IMS transaction? This information (defined thru WLM) found in other mainframe monitors like mainview, can't be found on other system monitors lik...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to display CPU utilization relative to weight

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), a panel with a clear display of percentage CPU utilization by each LPAR relative to the CEC capacity (all partitions stack to a total of 100%) and the percentage relative to the LPA...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists