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Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
3 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

Enable Instana to Monitor and Visualize Specific CICS TS Component Sub‑Metrics via OMEGAMON Sensor

Request to extend Instana so it can surface detailed CICS TS sub‑component metrics—such as sockets, transaction classes, TDQs, TSQs, connection and file statuses, and memory usage—when these are provided by the OMEGAMON sensor. These metrics are a...
5 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Enable internal initiation and control of packet‑level trace collection within the e3270UI and Web UI—eliminating dependencies on NetView or external utilities—while supporting user‑specified output paths and export formats compatible with Wireshark and other protocol‑analysis tooling.

Add the ability to turn on Packet Tracing, which will collect the data and allow the user to save it in a format I can easily feed into Wireshark or other analytics platforms. To meet expectations, OMEGAMON AI for Networks must provide the capabil...
17 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 0 Submitted

Create situation for ABENDCODE TEP´s Portal or Grafana GUI

We have 3 clients in Central America and there are more than 10 CICS partitions in use. The type of alarm or situation that needs to be created is based on Abend codes; search for a code and when it appears, trigger a situation. Currently, we have...
19 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
23 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

Add sort fields to workspace KCPPSLD

In workspace KCPPSLD we would like to be able to sort on fields Transaction Rate and Transactions total.
28 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

E3270UI - HUB DISPLAY PANEL needs to show ALL HUBS that are configured in the environment and ability switch between

Currently we have 2 hubs and 2 teps that we need to be able to switch between for e3270ui Queries... and yet we currently only show the PRIMAY HUB.. No Secondary HUB is displayed and this used to be available in prior releases...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Password spray alerts various sources

zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

Add VOLUME(xxxx) support in KN3TCPMO member

For uncataloged TCP/IP profile data sets in TCPIP, which are there concatened with a vol-ser entry, do we need a volume parameter in KN3TCPMO member. The Configuration Manager/PARMGEN parameter can be: KN3_TCPX01_TCPIP_PROFILES_VOL
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 0 Future consideration