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Omegamon to show memory CEC Capacity

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent memory amount (capacity) for the CEC ? For example: CEC1 has 1TB of memory, where LPAR-A is allocating 256 GB and LPAR-B is allocating 256GB. In this case we woul...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Omegamon to display (VFM) Virtual Flash Memory on CEC level

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent Virtual Flash Memory (VFM) amount for the CEC ? A panel sumarizing the capacity, and the allocation for each LPAR. For example: CEC1 has 1TB of VFM, where LPAR-A ...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to display VH, VM and VL

After IPLs, OOCoD, CBUs, planned or unplanned weight or logical processors changes, it's necessary to double check the number of current number of CPs Vertical High, Vertical Med and Vertical Low. Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS ...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the Version of TADz/IZSAM used to create scan file

We receive each month tens of thousands of TADz scan files from nearly four thousand z/OS sytems belonging to many hundreds of distinct client accounts. We have no way of knowing which scan files have been generated by which version of TADz, and t...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Add policy for JVM status

Many resources can be monitored via policies, but not a JVM. Please add the "JVM enable status" to the list of possible system policy rules
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Option to expose data conversion error in API response

z/OS Connect APIs return HTTP SC200 (OK) despite reporting many GMOMW0005E data conversion errors in the STDOUT. According to L2 support, this data conversion error is so pervasive that zCEE just log the error messages but move on to provide the A...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration