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Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

User fields at occurrence level

Currently we have a PIF interface to add occurrences to the current plan. We need to pass variables to a job/operation that are up to 500 bytes long (for non-zos environment). The variables have to be available to all operations in the occurrence....
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 0 Future consideration

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Populate CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST with file close time for closed files.

CPSM Local Files view always shows all zeroes for "GMT file close time" and for "Local time file was closed" for closed files. This is because CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST are always zeroes when file statistics are extracted. They ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Discovery Products Use By Month - option to download all the usage data from all systems combined

One of the #1 things I use the product for is the Discovered Product Use by Moth. In here, after drilling down from LPAR>LIBRARY, I get the most granular data usage, going down to the jobname/userid/date/library, etc. 99% of the time, this is t...
10 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
10 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
10 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Submitted

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
10 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

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