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Need a way of listing available ZOAU Commands (reference list) from USS

ZOAU ibm documentation site has a 'Shell command Reference' section in the ZOAU manual - which is very useful. It would be just as useful to be able to get a "reference list" of available ZOAU commands from USS - instead of needing to open the man...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

Document Changes for each PTF/Upgrade

Documentation of changes are being made for each PTF or upgrade would be more useful then trying to figure things out from the HOLDDATA. HOLDDATA is usually only available to the individual doing the SMPE work, not the end users. End users have no...
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

ADDI CA7 job triggering flow with Data Files usage

CA7 will drive the flow of files shared thru path.
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Functionality already exists

Extend COPY-to-PDS API to link to buildFile

Today, the Transfer.groovy script of zAppBuild allows us to push non-buildable files through the pipeline. All MVSExec execute records are showing a relative file path of the repository based on the build file reference. It would be consistent, if...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

Thai Code page support for HACP EE

Thai customers need support for thai code page in HACP EE
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Functionality already exists

CICS explorer task history

Include Task History, that is Configured; Collected and Displayed. This is available in WUI interface. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=resources-historical-data
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

Add filtering to Statistic Reports

I believe it would be useful to add filters to both List and Summary Statistics report. For example, report on a given transaction when looking at transaction stats. Or only report transactions that have an ATTACH>0. For file stats it could be ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists

Automatic generate JCL to copy archive log (on tape) to readable archige log (on disk) for IMSPI (+TAW)

Automatic generate JCL to copy archive log (on tape) to readable archige log (on disk) for IMSPI (+TAW)
11 months ago in IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists