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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

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
30 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...
3 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review

Improve the messaging for LCP Configuration changes in GDPS

LCP is critical to our cyber protection planning. We maintain our SGC captures for 7 days, and for security reasons wish to raise an alert of the retention period is changed. Currently there is no GEOxxxxxW message issued just a vague GEORPT messa...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Update zoau mvscmd to support --cmd= for tso commands

The zoau mvscmd supports the --steplib= for a --pgm=program. Please add an option to invoke a tso command such as --cmd=command and then the --args= would be parameters passed to the tso command. This would fill the void the default tsocmd lacks a...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration