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zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
20 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Under review

Externalise all error messages to the SYSLOG

Please add all Joblog Error messages to the SYSLOG so that it can be used to automate/trigger altering through OPS MVS. This is needed from the AGM Interceptor from zCEE and CICS, as well as the Base Component. Thank you
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

AD lacks inter-relation analysis capability from java service connected to mainframe.

Proposed idea: 1. In current AD 6.0.1/6.1.x all artifacts loaded from z/OS into application discovery on windows would enable user to analyze the inter-module relationships/interdependencies in mainframe alone but it didn't show the holistic view ...

allow STCKE columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T to be pulled as a timestamp using SQL

These columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T are not usable, because they cannot be selected as a readable value using DB2 mainframe SQL. TIME_ZC_ENTRY_E TIME_ZC_EXIT_E TIME_SOR_SENT_E TIME_SOR_RECV_E I was asked to submit a RFE for this, but I did find ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

zCDP to support CA/BroadCom IDMS SMF record collection

In ASEAN, there is a customer who uses CA/Broadcom IDMS.Customer has some difficulty to produce any IDMS performance related report So.. if zCDP is able to collect IDMS SMF record in near-real time, then forwards it into Analytic Platform (such li...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
2 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Under review

Add a filter for the AltClientID to the QUERY IMSCON TYPE(CLIENT) command

If you have hundreds or thousands clients connected to IMS Connect at the same time and if you are also using synchronous callout, having a filter on the AltClientID with the QUERY IMSCON TYPE(CLIENT) command could be very helpful when you have an...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
27 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
27 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Under review