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Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

GDPS LCPm must be able to cater for a mixture of virtual and physical airgapped SGC copies in a 4-site MGM configuration

In a 4-site MGM configuration with a physically air-gapped 5th site, we would like to have the ability to take a SGC in the production (or DR region) and on the 5th site. Currently, GDPS LCPm in a 4-site MGM configuration only supports virtual iso...
4 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 22 Future consideration

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Simplify the process of extracting volumes in MGM copy.

Good Morning, In environments where GEOPARM is complex, managing extraction of multiple volumes of the MGM copy is complex. The process is very manual (you have to go through GDPS panels to RESUME the disks, then FW the FCs, then delete the GM/GC ...
9 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Create a command/feature to execute KCPRLIM in all CICS regions (or CICS AORs) at same time.

Customer has 463 CICS and sometimes they need to change RESOURCE LIMIT (RLIM) related to some transactions. So, it is necessary to execute the KCPRLIM 463 times to change these resources for each transaction. If a new command/feature is created to...
11 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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