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ZOAU interface with SDSF

Just as with REXX one can use the SDSF REXX API to access any/all information from SDSF so should ZOAU be able to do the same. There is so much information available via SDSF that could be useful to the ZOAU user.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

Python to support further encoding: tags beside 1047 and ISO8859-1

Currently, IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python seems to only support encoding 1047 and ISO8859-1. If we've coded: # encoding: cp1141 neither output nor error messages are shown for e.g. printed output. A simple print("Hello World") would be enough ...
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3 Needs more information

Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

Using CICS Policies to check if terminal connections have been acquired

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for Terminal Connection Acquired to CICS and so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Polici...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

Request a C/C++ interface for IBM VSAM macros used in TPF

Currently only assembler programs can issue the VSAM macros. It is required that C/C++ programs can also issue these macros via function calls in a similar manner.
27 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Needs more information

Shared Temporary Storage Summary limitation

In the KCPTSS view, we have the Shared Temporary Storage Summary section, but in the KCPSTST view, the list of the queues written in the coupling facility with the size and number of items is not available. For further questions, please get in to...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Needs more information

Add ability to include tags to the provisioned resources

Adding tags with metadata about the resources like Virtual Servers will help in large ICIC installations. These tags may be later used to filter resources in operations like inventory, billing, maintenance, automation and so on. Tags are defined b...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 4 Needs more information

Use Flash Express as swap storage for VM Guests

The Linux (compute) LPAR can access to Flash Express Storage. Could be very useful in terms of performance to use this storage as provider for vm's swap disks.The swap disk is generally included into ICIC flavors, very interesting if it can be dep...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

New tables KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_LP_T

Create KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T respectively similar to KPMZ_CPUMF1_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_T tables but including LP number in key
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Needs more information