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Consideration of "CEETDLI" IMS syntaxes

Currently, CBLTDLI syntax was supported by the tool but not CBLTDLI.We would like to have CEETDLI IMS syntaxe supported by the tool.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Consideration of "DLITCEE" IMS syntaxes

Currently, DLITCBL syntax was supported by the tool but not CBLTDLI.We would like to have DLITCEE IMS syntaxe supported by the tool.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Suppress SNAPC console messages

Create new ZASER and ZIDOT options to suppress SNAPC console messages.1) ZASER SNAP CONSDMP to suppress nodump msgs2) ZIDOT SNAP NOMSG prefix.error to suppress sending console messages of a particular SNAPC dump.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

Include a some kind of message or mechanism to show in the log how many extents the data set has

1. A parm to set from how many extents the message will be recorded in the log;2. Based on parm from the item 1 the message will be triggered to be showed in the log. Example: If I set the parm to 200, and if the data set has 200 extents the messa...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM RFE for CTG To Support Insertion of AppDynamics Unique Transaction ID Into ODR Data Field

Our Mainframe event Acquisition System (MEAS) software product is integrated with AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor (APM). This integration allows APM to monitor transactions that cross platform boundaries, such as from a Windows Applica...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Future consideration

Customize Available Columns

The Available_Columns under the Columns_Definition table are limited and not customizable.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Need documentation on what to backup and restore on the ZD&T Web server

If the ZD&T Web server is on an image that needs to be rebuilt then what needs to be backed up and restored: database, repository storage, license server if applicable, ...
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration