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IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 1 Under review

Issue an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE), if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used to reformat a date-time value

I would like to get an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE) issued, if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used on any DATETIME or TIMESTAMP invocation, like in this code example: dcl out char(80) var; out = 'Run from: ' !! subStr(dateTime...
7 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enhance usability of REPATTERN built-in function by making 3rd argument optional

While DATETIME and TIMESTAMP built-in functions do have a default pattern supported, for REPATTERN both patterns must always be specified, like in the following code example: dcl saveDT char(17);saveDT = dateTime(); out = 'Run from: ' !! rePattern...
7 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
7 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
7 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Integration of informations about the Boost Class, Speed & zIIP Boost in table KPMZ_LPAR_T

Integrate three columns in tables KPMZ_LPAR_T from SMF70FLA to specify the Boost Class and if Speed or zIIP Boost is active during the current interval : BOOST_CLASS ==> IPL / SHUTDOWN / RECOVERY (From SMF70FLA Bits 13 - 15) 001: IPL 010: Shutd...
7 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve DTCNDELETEDEADPROF to delete only unused profiles for a specific period

Enabling DTCNDELETEDEADPROF parameter causes to delete all profiles after logoff of the user. Unfortunately, debugger users should redefine deleted profiles at their next logon. A new parameter so to delete only DTCN profiles that have not been us...
about 2 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

Integrate ZOAU into the z/OS base

ZOAU has become the go to toolset on z/OS for some shops but it is still not something an ISV, or open-source developer, can use as there is no guarantee that every installation will have it. By integrating it into the z/OS base so it is installed...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Future consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
20 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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