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IZOA-CWS- create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts

Hi IBM, we have a customer that is looking to create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts. This means that, anyone defined as a team member to IZOA, can browse/edit the alerts created by their team. We don't want to use a shared RACF ID...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Future consideration

Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dependency scanner to use CSECT in BZUCFG to support when moduler-under-test is different from loadmodulename

If you perform zUnit testing on a program which is located in a load module which has a different name than the program name then DBB reads he BZUCFG incorrectly. The situation happens when testing statically called programs, or when the main prog...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

PL/I Formatter doesn't work if file is UTF-8

PL/I-Files with UTF-8 (e.g. german Characters)
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
about 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Debug: Monitor expression support for multiline statements

Currently you can only monitor expressions (COBOL), that are in one single line. Please allow the debugger in Eclipse to monitor expressions on multi-line statements as well. For more information please have a look at the case TS005731864
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Disable RULES controls locally

Hi, The RULES compilation option allows to perform compile-time checks on the proper use of data formats. We have activated the RULES compilation option to educate our developers on the proper use of data formats, and we are satisfied with it. How...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Add MFA Support for Debug Profile Editor in Eclipse IDE

Currently some ADFz products (such as File Manager and Fault Analyzer) work perfectly with IDz Eclipse IDE while using MFA and PassTickets, while others, such as the Debug Profile Editor do not. Additionally, if you try to use the Debug Profile Ed...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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