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Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
9 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
4 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Under review

Enabel the EPILOG in OMEGAMON z/OS in the future

Hi support, In the PID - 5698-T01 , the lastest version in OM-z/OS V550, withdrew the EPILOG support from V530. In the document, the alternately method - RMF III near term history is instead. But we found the RMF III report only get the SYSTEM lev...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
10 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy: Add new System Rule to monitor LU62 connections.

CICS policies currently have the ability to monitor and perform action on MRO and IPIC connection status but lacking the ability to monitor LU62 connection which RTA has the capability of doing so. We have business application that still rely on L...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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