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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Allow Enhanced 3270 users to, beside Situations, also see Workflow Policies

When Workflows policies are used for Situations which go True, and these policies perform certain actions (commands). Then E3270UI users are left very confused about these actions as they can only see the Situation trigger, not the Workflow policy...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Dataclass parm to WCONFIG (PARMGEN and Config Manager)

Helpful for Omegamon output file allocation and management
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Self Describing Agent (SDA) by situations

The Self Describing Agent functionality to keep the TEMS in sync with z/OS (maintenance) is very helpful. Within the Enhanced 3270 there is a good overview of the SDA seeding process and it's status. In this overview we sometimes notice a 'error' ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Variable to support more than 8 positions

Is very important for installation flexibility have parameters supporting variables with more than 8 characters.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Linklist library

To be possible PARMGEN allocate and populate a new library for using (concatenated) in LNKLST (z/OS parmlib). Almost of the customers refuse to use RKANMOD because the number of members and create a new LOADLIB and copy de necessary modules for us...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

RFE: PARMGEN – Select product to regenerate parameterization

Include on Option 3 (Create Runtime Members) an intermediate panel that allows us to select the products that we want to regenerate the parameterization. The possibility to select a product do regenerate parameter reduced a lot the time to apply m...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Print and Save dataset of ATF

The data of the ATF Trace are stored in the VSAM History dataset. But isn't possible to print all trace or save only data of the ATF Trace for future analisys or archive.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

RKANDATV - permanent updates to KxxATR and KxxCAT members

Dear Sirs: RTE libs usually are placed on target volumes in our systems. These files should not be updated by the application after installation processs has been finished. To demarcate real RTE libs, log datasets and parm libs from each other we ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
24 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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