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New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Mask text in Operations Manager Log

We use Operations Manager to monitor our system and log activity. Some data that is logged could be sensitive (for example a password). Operations Manager allows you to suppress from VIEWCON but not from the log
about 3 years ago in Operations Manager for z/VM 2 Delivered

Increase OMEGAMON/CICS online statistics limitation

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS has limitation on online historical statistics is 4GB is the maximum per CICS region. In the growing of online CICS transactions, this limitation does not allow our OEMGAMON/CICS to have over 1 working day's transaction hi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Enable SAF_Keyring Support for TCPOPTS

The HTTPOPTS statement of TWSz controller allows you to specify a SAF-Keyring for using SSL-Connection. But this only enables secure communication via SAF-Keyrings for Controller-Controller connection.We also want to secure the TCP/IP communicatio...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Netv REST API support for RACF cert

NETVIEW RESTFul API does not support RACF based Digitial ceritficates
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 2 Delivered

Edit Popup in Debug perspective

In the popup window doing mouse hover on a variable i need to edit, copy , paste the value
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

File Manager option to Import File in Plug-in RDz

in the file manager plugin for RDz i have the option export to desktop and i need option to import from desktop
almost 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow python code to utilize zIIP processors

As we modernize our mainframe patching infrastructure and use python to implement, we do not want to introduce more CPU consumption in the process of trying to enhance our environment for the future. Allowing python to execute on zIIP would be an ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Delivered

Request for Java Hold data delivery method to align with current z/OS methodology.

Request to provide holddata that IBM z customers are accustomed to using without having to use a seperate methodology to access the required information.
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered