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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Omegamon TEPS history navigation by recording interval

From the Omegamon TEPS we need the ability to quickly and easily navigate backward and forward in time by the recording interval. The existing calendar functionality is cumbersome to use and slow to respond. Ideally, we would like a "calendar back...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improve Omegamon history panels

Would be possible to improve the Omegamon history panels and export (PF6) on e3270gui/TOM, including the DATE column ? Possibly choosing the columns to be added on the panel/history file. This would apply to all omegamon products using history fun...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Change KCIPARSE to use the Configuration Manager RTEDEF defined variables

When using RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y , variables can be defined as System variable, or they may be defined in the RTEDEF(VAR$GLOB) and/or RTEDEF(VAR$lpar) members. When running the Configuration Manager (CM) GENERATE action, variables defined by the ...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable migration of Situations between Omegamon instances without the use of the TEP

Omegamon situations can be created by using the TEP, or by using the e3270UI. For those clients running a TEP, the situations can then be migrated between Omegamon environments by using the TACMD command to export and import the situations. For th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory

In large environments with many nodes it is possible for ITM to overrun the 31-bit memory allocation causing abends in Remote TEMS started tasks on z/OS. Please enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory as a means to avoid this memory overrun in situations...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Log user, who in the E3270UI System Programmer's Toolkit gives what system commands

The E3270UI already logs z/OS and CICS commands in the E3270UI SYSPRINT DD when commands are given using the E3270UI workspaces. However the System Programmers Toolkit does not, this means that system commands when give via the System Programmer's...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reduce the about of CPU/MIPS used during zRTEMS startup

In environments with large numbers of nodes (8000+), when a z/OS RTEMS is started the RTEMS is measure to use 300-500 MIPS while establishing a HTEMS connection. During an IPL this is not an issue thanks to IPL BOOST, but when the zRTEMS needs res...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow helps associated to alerts in the KOBSITEC workspace (e3270ui)

Like in TEP, we would like in the e3270ui a Help for the alerts shown in the KOBSITEC workspace. It should be the same (plain text) that was defined in the Situation that generate the alert. The Help could be an additional option in the "Options M...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

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