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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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Provide the ability to see the archive dataset name from viewer

In earlier releases of ITOM the ISPF archive and report viewer was the native viewer or browser. Both would include the name of the archive data set in the ISPF panel heading. In ITOM v3.1 a new ISPF viewer was introduced and the archive data set ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable administrative control for default panel layouts

Provide the ability to setup site wide panel layouts for the archive list layout which will then become part of the end users profile and customized from there. While this specific request is for the archive list layout in the ISPF interface it wo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Archive Dataset name to BJT@BTCH Archive LIST output

System: TOM BJT@BTCH utilityActor: Major Client needs report enhancement BJT@BTCH is batch reporting utility provided with TOM. NASCO needs to use BJT@BTCH reporting utility to LIST archive datasets for specific jobs on specific days. Dataset name...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

MIXED=YES support

IBM Output Manager doesn't support a DB2 parameter MIXED=YES. I faul into this DBCS gab! At the installation, I added SBCD to each CHAR field, but at the archive process didn't worked correctly. I got wrong date/time value and SQL errors.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Filter joblog archives with low returncodes

We migrated recently from Beta92 to Tivoli Output manager to archive our joblogs. Beta92 provides the feature to classify return codes below a certain value as "good", the joblogs with returncodes below this value are marked as successful. &l...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Enhance ITOM Special Instructions to support more data

Client would like to retain up to 40 lines of data within the ITOM special instruction field used to populate report banner pages. The current size of the Special Instruction field is not sufficient to store this much data.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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.
about 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