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Protect or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application

Rerun on a waiting application is very dangerous : all external predecessors are set to COMPLETE.2 proposals :Not allow REUN on a WAITING application, just allow it on a COMPLETE application.Or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application to ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

product needs to display sumary of 4HRA for all lpars

Customer wants to track spending for hardware which is summary of 4HRA for all lpars. The products does not provide a summary of this.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Trailing Quote

AAM requires the trailing quote be entered to complete the data set name on the control member panel. ISPF applications commonly making the trailing quote mark optional to improve ease of use. AAM will issue a confusing error message indicating th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Variable re-use

The AAM ISPF dialogs should remember last used dataset names and entries to improve usability. Especially the control member dialogs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Short Message Support

When performing functions under the control member management menu it would be good if the product took advantage of the ISPF short message field to indicate actions like member saved, syntax check successful, unsuccessful, Etc.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

z/TPF ETIM System Profiler enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance ETIM System Profiler report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions by I-Stream such as: i. Compression i. Compression ii. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP ii...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add TPFDF function details to macro trace in a post processed dump

TPFDF calls appear in dump macro trace as an ENTRC to a UA** assembler program, the reader must then consult the TPFDF programs for details of the actual function.Could this information be included in the macro trace on the same line as the ENTRC?...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 5 Future consideration

Option to perform additional checks for affected resource before shutdown

We need a option to perform additional checks for affected resource by shutdown
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration