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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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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...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

PARMGEN temporary generated files deletion

This RFE is to ask IBM to create a internal process in the PARMGEN, as the generated temporary files created by PARMGEN process is deleted after the end of the configuration, removing the necessity of manual deletion of files.
almost 4 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 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.
almost 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM Z Service Management Explorer should retain state between login sessions

In cases where users are voluntarily or involuntarily logged out of IBM Z Service Management Explorer, upon their return they should be able to go right back to where they were when they logged off, without losing their place - e.g. have the optio...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Distributing Managed Systems to history configuration on E3270UI

Distributing Managed systems to History configuration has to go through an undocumented enter key .It would be ideal to have undocumented enter key removed
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 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

Specific support for a Monoplex configuration (when not a Sysplex) that is not manual process to set up

Raised on behalf of client following client advocate call:Have ~40 LPARs that are all monoplex. They have one Hub TEMS per environment (prod, dev, test). OMEGAMONs seem to look for Sysplex configuration. Since Monoplex is a valid configuration, th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon Reflex Automation Security not alined with z/OS Security requirements

The existing Security Management implemented for Reflex Automation was not aligned with basic z/OS security concept. Today if a customer enable the function to propagate the TEP end user that is executing a TEP "TAKE ACTION" on a z/OS Omegamon Age...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration