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Omegamon to display VH, VM and VL

After IPLs, OOCoD, CBUs, planned or unplanned weight or logical processors changes, it's necessary to double check the number of current number of CPs Vertical High, Vertical Med and Vertical Low. Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS ...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Under review

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the Version of TADz/IZSAM used to create scan file

We receive each month tens of thousands of TADz scan files from nearly four thousand z/OS sytems belonging to many hundreds of distinct client accounts. We have no way of knowing which scan files have been generated by which version of TADz, and t...
2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Search on Unicode character strings in File manager MVS

Is it possible to change the functions of File manager MVS to allow the specification of Unicode character strings ?File Manager will convert these Unicode character strings into an internal hexadecimal character string in the File Manager templat...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 0 Under review

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
about 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration