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Search results: IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

Add selection option on JobName to the BJTBATCH utility

Currently BJTBATCH allows selection on ARCHIVE and REPORT names, but not on Job names. When archival is set up to use different name other than the jobname for new archive, the BJTBATCH utility cannot be used to report on particular Job names. For...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Submitted

Allow to keep preferred Formatted View in user's profile.

Currently, ISPF interface always show the default Unformatted View when viewing an archive leading to ASA code in col 1 being shown to users. Users can select NoCC formatted view from the Options menu "3. Change Formatted View" but this applies on...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Submitted

Allow users to purge output in held in IOM using only interfaces, ISPF etc

First JES provides this ability so does SDSF. It is needed. If a programmer has an IOM archive that lasts for 14 days (say), and he generates a lot of dumps for some reason, there is no way for him to delete those unwanted dumps. Today he must wai...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Not under consideration

Combine 12x BJT SOA rows into a 1x BJT SOA row

This request concerns the 12 rows added to BJTSOA for each archive. The continual addition of these rows and the insert activity visible via Query Monitor show the CPU requirement and I/O to use 12 rows to describe 12 attributes. Our request shoul...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Not under consideration

SMF extract sample ALC program

ITOM should have a sample program (like they do with exit UX01) that will extract ITOM SMF records. It should reside in ITOM SBJTSAMP library. This program (ALC) should work without any changes and to execute this sample, user should just providea...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS Not under consideration

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