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Per IBM Case TS021918218, Add functionality/situation variable to allow Omegamon/ZOS to alert on JES Job Queue length when reaches customizable threshold

All customers running ZOS run batch jobs - usually mission critical and time critical. The days when operations teams monitor JES job queues 7x24 minute by minute are gone. This idea is to request that when JES job queues backup, alerting and auto...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Submitted

Provide CL/SuperSession sample exit for kill all sessions with IMS (IMS conversation) when a user was force disconnect from CLSS.

Hi, Since migrating from TPX (broadcom) to CL Supersession, we are seeing DFS970I messages in IMS when users connected to IMS via conversation abruptly exit (intentional or not) from CL Supersession. With the previous TPX software, there was an...
1 day ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime Submitted

Add in RLIM the TDQ resource

Added resource on TDQ queue write in resource limiting for automatic kill task cancellation when threshold is exceeded
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Submitted

We suggest that VTAM startup process continues even if one major node with error couldn't work properly.

During an IPL, VTAM stopped the initialization when it found a node syntax error at ATCCONxx member. In this case, the error occurs on the last node that was with a comma by mistake. My suggestion is if there is a syntax error and you get the 'ERR...
13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development Submitted

Suppress ACTION message when processing certain DEFACTNs

The Operations Manager DEFACTN defines an action to be taken when a rule (defined by DEFRULE) is triggered. For actions triggered by a virtual machine console message, Operations Manager inserts a mandatory message into the virtual machine's conso...
about 7 hours ago in Operations Manager for z/VM Submitted

Keep track of which package an artifact is in

We have a requirement that we should be able to deliver a release of an application to an empty runtime or verify if the runtime is correctly filled with a certain release. DBB keeps track of build results and build maps. However, none of those in...
4 days ago in Dependency Based Build Submitted

File manager Service provider for zosConnect

We have installed file manager service provider for zosConnect But it only works in openAPI2 We would appreciate to have this useful service in openAPI3 as it is the standard now Thanks
12 days ago in File Manager for z/OS Submitted

KVM Storage Migration Support Enhancement

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) does not currently provide a supported approach for migrating storage in environments running KVM. This limitation becomes a barrier when attempting to transition from one FlashSystem backend to another, as t...
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center Submitted

Add columns to KPMZ_WORKLOAD tables to support WLM Analysis

Please add the following columns to the KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T & KPMZ_WORKLOAD_D tables TCB_SEC SRB_SEC RCT_SEC IIT_SEC HST_SEC TOTAL_USING_SAMPES IDLE_DELAY UNKNOWN_DELAY TOTAL_DELAY_BATCH MPL_DELAY PRIVATE_PGIN_DLY SWAPIN_DELAY COMMON_PGIN_DELAY CP...
4 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics Submitted

Allow installation of multiple Python versions into the same CSI

With IDEA ZOS-I-3993 (Bundle python with | IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal) Python and ZOAU were added as bypassable pre-requisite to z/OS itself. Unfortunately, every new Python versions contain ++DELETE statements in the FMID t...
14 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python Submitted

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