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ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown

The ZDT Tools Deploy panel provides an option to "Stop emulated zOS", this does a hard stop of the emulator, not proving a graceful systematic shutdown of zOS and jes purge. If this option is selected, Tools must shutdown zOS in a organized manner.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Provide NEXT/PREV Viewing Functions for IP Trace Records

IP Packet Trace Navigation and Viewing Improvement.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

TXSeries use of PAM module needs rveiew

So the issue is that basically WebSphere Liberty is running as user cics AND thru the Web interface, in the back-end, the TXServies Web still tries to execute su - cics as demonstrated below in the screenshot, IT is NOT necessary to su to 'cics' a...
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Ability for zcentric agents to flow through a gateway to the Z Controller

This will allow client connections to the zController with zcentric to directly connect through a NAT IP (gateway) and not via a DDM. This will simplify set up and connections with the zcentric agent.
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Ensure runtime metrics collection captures a rare or desired messages.

Some utilities or messages occur extremely rarely (like once every 5 or 60 minutes). If RTMC is sampling 300 ECBs/sec of a 10k/sec workload, it is highly unlikely that utility/message of interest will be captured in the normal course of NVP collec...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Dump history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. It would be advantageous to show on these graphs when a dump occurs. This may be particularly useful in light of idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm....
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Loadset history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. Many of these metrics can be affected by the activation of new code (actual CPU, CPU used by a particular message type/NVP, ECBs in use, etc). It would be adv...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow Enhanced 3270 users to, beside Situations, also see Workflow Policies

When Workflows policies are used for Situations which go True, and these policies perform certain actions (commands). Then E3270UI users are left very confused about these actions as they can only see the Situation trigger, not the Workflow policy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Debug 'z/OS Batch application using JCL' without file suffix *.jcl

Hi IBM, when I like to create a Debug Configuration with "z/OS Batch application using JCL", I need to select a "Base JCL". Unfortunatley IDz doesn't resolve this JCL Member/Data Set, if the "z/OS File Mapping" for that remote data set is not *.jc...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

remove requirement for var/zosconnect for product extensions

The product extensions, set up with command 'zconsetup' must be stored under the /var/zosconnect. This is described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4SVW_3.0.0/com.ibm.zosconnect.doc/installing/setup_prod_extensions.html
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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