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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
29 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

List Omegamon products and versions in Configuration Manager (like PARMGEN).

In PARMGEN, when selection option 3.1 (Set up/Refresh PARMGEN work environment), a list would be shown of all Omegamon products and versions installed in the selected target datasets. With Configuration Manager (CFM) there is no such list, and now...
25 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

We have needs to relocate an Omegamon Hub from a Windows Server to the Mainframe - migration docs should be offered

Hello, no proper migration docs are available for Hub migration from one system to another (in our case from Windows to Mainframe).Problems arose during the migration of managed systems, groups and situations, so that information that had not been...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add an enhancement to support the use of same named RTEMS and HTEMS procs in Sysplex environment (shared PROCLIB)

Customer has a Sysplex environment. The same PROCLIB is shared between several z/OS systems. Customer's environment is designed to use identical STC names on all z/OS systems in the Sysplex. They need a way to use the same approach with all Omegam...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

E3270 Events Tab KOBSEVTS should accept multi-tenancy settings

Currently Omegamon E3270 events tab KOBSEVTS doesn't use multi-tenancy settings and shows all available events. KOBSEVTS should benefit multi-tenancy settings. The customer should have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they want to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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