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IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS

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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...
about 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...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under 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

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

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

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 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 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add DBCS enablement support for ITOM

Our customer is using CA JMR and displaying their joblog in Double bytes Character (DBCS).Please add this function to IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS(ITOM).We imagine that SE command of SDSF would be supported on ITOM panel.
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud Support Case CS1112453

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almost 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support the use of IWS Occurrence date in the ARCTIME parameter

Output Manager supports an Archive SYSOUT Configuration Parameter called ARCTIME. The purpose of this parameter is to designate the date and time to be associated with a given instance of output. Supported options are Capture, Job and Dataset. Whe...
about 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration