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Add functionality to COPY command to only copy user data from 3270 screen and not protected field data.

When copying 3270 screen information to paste to another screen the COPY command should have an option to not copy protected fields and only copy user data fields. Ticket TS007753709 opened with support and it was suggested to submit a RFE.
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Allow selection criteria based on current volume attributes

AAM should be able to leverage the current volser attributes to be used as selection criteria in order to determine if it is the best option for the current situation. This capability can enhance existing DFSMS Storage Group and volume selection r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enable Extent number as a selection criteria

AAM currently tracks dataset extents in support of its secondary increase function. AAM should allow the current extent number to be used as a selection criteria in order to invoke product functions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enable FORCE_EOV capability

When controlling dataset allocation under DFSMS it can be beneficial to influence volume selection within eligible storage groups by disallowing the selected volume. If AAM enabled a force EOV functionality it could leverage this capability in con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting. Mark this one as important to the customer.Add additional interpolation algorithms - LINEAR, POLY2, and POLY3 – same as we do for SmartPath forecasting.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Planned for future release

Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Product usage information from USS

TADz also collecting usage data from USS as from z/OS
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Planned for future release

GET a message on HOD logs or a Popup

HOD :Server presented a certificate that was not trusted (Comm 662)
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Seperate PDF Orientation in email attachments

This RFE is related to PDF email attachments. There is a parameter in ITOM PA that sets page size and orientation. The problem is that this parameter is universal, that is affects all PDFs, no matter distribution list. We have several departments ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release