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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 4, 2016

RFE PARMGEN – Variable to support more than 8 positions

Is very important for installation flexibility have parameters supporting variables with more than 8 characters.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Ashok Mahay
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    Jun 7, 2024

    Hello, thank you for submitting this Idea, furture enhancements will be considered for the IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager (MCM) which is the new strategic OMEGAMON configuration tool. We highly recommend moving to MCM to install and configure OMEGAMONs. Please reach out if you have any questions. Regards IBM OMEGAMON Product Management

  • Guest
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    Jan 10, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - Tivoli Management Services on z/OS
    Component - Product functionality
    Source - Accelerated Value Program (AVP)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - OMEGAMON for z/OS
    Component - Installation
    Source - Accelerated Value Program (AVP)