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IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS

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TACM should use zIIP engines during ie EXPLORE function

Heavy EXPLORE(reporting functions) running through all catalogs have a high GP cost. In examples we face turnaround times of 100 minutes with a GP cost of 12 minutes. Here an explore sample that gives above numbers: EXPLORE - DSN-LISTFILE(OUT) - C...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Include SMF type 42 in LISTSMF when INCLUDE-DSN

When using INCLUDE-DSN=Y for LISTSMF, only SMF record types 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 35, 36, 40, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69 will be checked. I'm missing type 42 in which I can find what actions have been taken within a PDS i.e. ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reorg While Open (CR+) should not have a long during lock on the catalog

The Reorg While Open function of Advanced Catalog Management (CR+) puts a lock on the catalog during rebuilding. For larger catalogs this can take up to several minutes. In this time, no datasets residig in this catalog can be accessed and no new ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

use product to report on orphan catalog entries

Customer has an issue with orphan catalog entires. They would like the product to report on these.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

ACM, Authentication over TCP/IP

Hello,the problem is the authentication on access ACM.Which option(s) do we have to deny a potential attacker the access to these critical functions while allowing it to ACM? I have understood that the protocol of the service is complex and diffic...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add FIX capability to SYS1 catalog compare in Adv Catlg Mgr (as previously requested in RFE34731)

I had submitted RFE34731 for Adv Catalog Mgnt for zOS 2.4 to add the capability to compare SYS1 datasets in different master catalogs and provide the fixes to sink up the missing datasets. Just like the alias compare does now. I receive notificati...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TACM product enhancement request

Hi, I would like to request and product enhancement to TACM. We are running on TACM V2.5. Please ask the TACM development team if they can build a monitoring/display/alert via the 3270 session for TACM, to monitor free space on a volume where a IC...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add enhancement to Adv Catalog Manager

Request For Enhancement to Tivoli Adv Catalog Mgnt 2.4 . Problem description This is not a problem but a Request For Enhancement (RFE) to Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS v2.4. Currently, the Advanced Catalog Management product has a ca...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration