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For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
27 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Provide parameter like KM2_TIMEOUT (similar to KOB_TIMEOUT) to control idle session timeout for MVS Classic

Helps comply with site's audit requirement to cancel inactive sessions within x minutes.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add jobid to the M5ASCPUTLH table and then displayed in KM5ASP5H workspace

To make it easier to find jobs with same job name in Omegamon history, it would be very helpful to have jobid added to M5ASCPUTLH table and display in KM5ASP5H workspace.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
11 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Customer AI Use Case - Improving OMEGAMON AI for z/OS to detect anomalies of Bad Capping impacting online workloads

Alerting on significant divergence of CPU consumption per Capping Group to detect potential bad capping leading to interference with the transactional workload. Context : System Engineers generally have hundreds of workloads to monitor and applyin...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to throttle incoming trafic rates based in USEID using CEX

We believe it would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows throttling of incoming transaction rates in IMS based on the associated user ID. This approach would help safeguard the system against excessive workloads and enable more preci...
2 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Make KM5_BPXSUPERUSER available in Configuration Manager

Parameters that customers should be available to customize must be working & accessible in the RTE definition. Creating several places to add settings for the configuration will lead to errors and are not customer friendly. There for KM5_BPXSU...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improved security

Any one that has implemented security doesn't run STC with uid 0. Omegamon should not try to open security holes for exploit
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Java com.ibm.ims.connect.OutputMessage should contain LPAR (SMF ID ) and IMS ID that executed the transaction

z/OS Connect stakeholders need to know which system of record executed an API, in this case IMS transactions. The IMS service provider does not supply any information about the IMS that executed the transaction beyond IMS Connect.
over 2 years ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration