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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the E3270UI to add CICS regions to a MSL ahead of time, that is when the CICS region has never yet run.

New CICS region(s) cannot be added into any Managed System List (MSL) until the HTEMS is aware of the CICS region(s), aka the CICS region has to run for a while, connect to the TEMA and HTEMS before the CICS region name is shown and can be added t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Action Command should have information in the SYSLOG about the command and it's executer (userid)

All action commands like CANCEL should list some information about the person, who actually enters the command.This request applies to all system commands you can send in e3270UI as well as to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). It is impo...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Submit multiple zOS commands from a single "Take Action" in a situation alert.

I am trying to have the Omegamon situation alert fire off two or more zOS commands. Depending on the conditions, the situation alert would fire and take an action. The action would be more than one zOS command being submitted to process.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

NTH File usage in the TOM

One of the nice things in the Omegamon Classic monitor for DB2 is the information when the Near Term History files wrap. This indicates the frequency of their use and provides a basis to increase their size or the number of them. This is something...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 5 Future consideration

N/A should not be considered greater than 0 when sorting on 'Elapsed Tran Time' attribute.

In panel KIPDEPS (IMS Dependent Regions) if we sort on the column 'Elapsed tran time' we see that dependent regions having an elapsed tran time equal to N/A are shown before regions having an elapsed time greater than 0.We think it would be more a...
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Omegamon WTO messaging

Be able to send zOSWTO messages to a specific LPAR in a SYSPLEX.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under 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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 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.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under 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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration