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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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Enhance Output Manager download function to create Excel tabs

When a client opts to download an indexed report or one which has multiple custom reports defined it would be very beneficial if the resulting download to Excel format would place the different indexes or custom reports into separate tabs of the s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

SwKBT - Catalogs import/export performance

Manual load of the IBM catalogs takes hours to complete. Would like to see this streamlined to shorten the durations. Perhaps smaller catalogs by application types.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Leverage real-time catalog sync with z/OS catalogs to manage report expiration.

TOM rely's on a batch catalog sync interface which must run to identify deleted archive files in order to complete the report expiration process. This process is overhead intensive and should be replaced with a real time catalog sync as other IBM ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add more granularity to the Admin function

Add more granularity to the Admin function, so we can have product administrators and functional application administrators.
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add capability in ISPF to view AFP reports formatted

Add a process to the ISPF interface to convert raw AFP data in simple formatted text for viewing
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Request for new admin "where did my report go?" report

When an end user does not receive an expected report at the expected time they often go to the report administrator to help them determine the reason why. TOM makes it very difficult to answer this question in a timely fashion. There should be an ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a list of Archives, a user should only be presented with Archives for which they have Dataset Access

For �Archive Only� implementations of ITOM the only method available to control user access to archives is by dataset access. Currently a user is presented with a list of all archives captured by ITOM. If a user does not have access to an archive ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support new administrative report or display to show all reports

Storage administrators need the ability to display all defined reports in iTOM. This information should also include associated job names and descriptions. Currently standard iTOM admin reports and displays do not support this capability.
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Introduce product messaging for completed report delivery to aid external moniotring

For monitoring purposes it would be useful to have an option to generate a WTO when reports are delievred to end users. In this manner operations can easily determine the time a report was delivered via Email/PDF by performing a quick scan of the ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Retention and pre-fill of Printing Preferences on Web

The customer has asked that the web interface retain the preferences entered when a user issues a print job so that those values can be pre-filled the next time a user prints from that same computer.
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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