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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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Include End Job Timestamp in Archive Job List

Add "Job Execution End Timestamp" on "IBM Tivoli Output Manager - Archived Sysouts" panel
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Support Case CS1112453

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over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New Date Banner Variables

We need to use dates in Banners with the formats DD/MM/YY / DD/MM/YYYY and YY/MM/DD / YYYY/MM/DD in order to keep the same output format that exists in the actual software.MM/DD/YY & MM/DD/YYY are not an usual format date used for both Clients...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Override EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS at the report level

We would like the capability of defining a different "from" email address for certain reports emailed by Output Manager, rather than using the address that is defined in policy for "EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS".Currently specified is the email address of t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support the use of IWS Occurrence date in the ARCTIME parameter

Output Manager supports an Archive SYSOUT Configuration Parameter called ARCTIME. The purpose of this parameter is to designate the date and time to be associated with a given instance of output. Supported options are Capture, Job and Dataset. Whe...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Freeze/Fix the top n lines of the report (header) while scrolling through the rest of the report

The ability to freeze or fix the top n lines of a report when viewing using the ISPF interface. There is currently the functionality to temporarily FIX a desired number of lines which is a command that has to be entered every time the report is vi...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to copy/paste portions of a sysout from the viewer

ITOM versions prior to v3 utilized the native ISPF facilities for viewing sysouts. This provided access to all the features of View/Browse, including the ability to utilize 'CC' line commands to copy portions of an output to another file for some ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to see the archive dataset name from viewer

In earlier releases of ITOM the ISPF archive and report viewer was the native viewer or browser. Both would include the name of the archive data set in the ISPF panel heading. In ITOM v3.1 a new ISPF viewer was introduced and the archive data set ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable administrative control for default panel layouts

Provide the ability to setup site wide panel layouts for the archive list layout which will then become part of the end users profile and customized from there. While this specific request is for the archive list layout in the ISPF interface it wo...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Output Manager download function to create Excel tabs

When a client opts to download an indexed report or one which has multiple custom reports defined it would be very beneficial if the resulting download to Excel format would place the different indexes or custom reports into separate tabs of the s...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration