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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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Increase ITOMWeb the 40 character limitation to 100 characters in the password dialog box.

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases and allowing ITOMweb to match this limit aligns them with this RACF limitation. This would allow users to have a secure password / passphrase created and used by all of our IBM products.
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Include End Job Timestamp in Archive Job List

Add "Job Execution End Timestamp" on "IBM Tivoli Output Manager - Archived Sysouts" panel
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

New Date Banner Variables

We need to use dates in Banners with the formats DD/MM/YY / DD/MM/YYYY and YY/MM/DD / YYYY/MM/DD in order to keep the same output format that exists in the actual software.MM/DD/YY & MM/DD/YYY are not an usual format date used for both Clients...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Print Report and then have option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email

Hi Team, Currently already generated report print option has to mention DEST, but we are looking for option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email which will help customers receiveing email instead of sending to DEST Printer. Pleaes co...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

ITOM parallel sysplex high availability

Provide capability for ITOM capture proc to run on any system in the sysplex without manual updates to parms
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support multiple versions of DB2 bind

When we upgrade/apply mainteance to TOM, sometimes it requires running DB2 bind and backout is to rebind with old packages. It'll be helpful if TOM can support multiple versions of DB2 bind so we can run different maintenance levels with just STEP...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Override EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS at the report level

We would like the capability of defining a different "from" email address for certain reports emailed by Output Manager, rather than using the address that is defined in policy for "EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS".Currently specified is the email address of t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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