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Assign LPAR activation profile using GDPS

We would like to be able to specify the LPAR activation profile to be used for an LPAR Activate. I see this as very similar to specifying the Load information (address & parm).
over 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Planned for future release

Task history collection filters to reduce/control collection.

Task history collection collects records for all task in the region. We want to be able to filter on what tasks are collected. and only collect the records for tasks that pass the filters setup for the region. The filters could be, but not limited...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

KCPTASH view limitation

In the KCPTASH view, when we select a task that was activated by a channel/IP port on a region, the Related section does not display the external IP address/port that activated the task For further questions, please get in touch with Nicola Giangi...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add a site defined Change Package Menu Option to trigger User Defined function/process.

Need a site defined change package menu option to trigger an immediate ISPF program (say Rexx) or another custom Exit Routine to perform site required checks - e.g. check JES queue and cancel scheduled future jobs.
2 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Shared Temporary Storage Summary limitation

In the KCPTSS view, we have the Shared Temporary Storage Summary section, but in the KCPSTST view, the list of the queues written in the coupling facility with the size and number of items is not available. For further questions, please get in to...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Needs more information

Security Identity propagation from Websphere to IMS

Hi, we need to have the possibility to propagate the identity principal from WebSphere applicaiton server/Liberty on open side to IMS transaction call using IMS Connector. Similar to what already is permitted with CTG. Goal is to permit that the s...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
2 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Under review

Ability to specify Clock time Interval for Cyclic day file definitions

Current limitation of trying to use CICS PA Panels is when defining day cyclic smf files, it is treated as midnight to midnight cut. In reality our smf data is from around 4am - 4am (Staggered between different LPARS). This means when generating a...
2 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

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