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Use the NMI Interface for Faster TCP/IP Tracing and Wireshark Export

Enhance IBM OMEGAMON for Networks to use the NMI interface for real-time TCP/IP tracing, allowing users to view trace data live while the trace is running and export the results for analysis in Wireshark. This capability would provide a faster alt...
about 2 hours ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality Submitted

Real-Time Socket-Level TCP/IP Connection Statistics in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks

Enhance IBM OMEGAMON for Networks to provide near real-time, socket-level TCP/IP connection statistics with refresh intervals of approximately one second, or the ability to manually refresh statistics by pressing Enter on a specific socket or conn...
about 2 hours ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality Submitted

New CICS API to FORCE switch TCB from QR to L8 (THREADSAFE)

Today, for a program to benefit from the advantages of TREADSAFE, it necessarily needs to access DB2 or MQUEUE, a functionality that not all programs have in their code. A second way is to define the program with the parameter CONCURRENCY=REQUIRED...
about 10 hours ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Submitted

zSecure - Add or Update existing AU.V 'Not empty' report to include MQM queues

We appreciate the capability provided by zSecure Audit 'Verify' to find 'Not empty' profiles and keep the database in a clean state.However, this report is limited for dataset (profiles) only. To keep the database in a clean state we would appreci...
about 12 hours ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Submitted

Add a command to restart STATSAPI port bind

Add a command to restart STATSAPI port bind without recycling CTG instance. Sometimes, port bind fails and statistics are not available from our monitoring product. Currently, to restart STATSAPI port bind, we need to recycle CTG instance. Adding ...
about 14 hours ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other Submitted

GM (Global Mirror) to Replicate Sysplex Coupling Datasets

Before we were MGM3Site we used XRC. With XRC we were able to mirror to our site3 frames our sysplex coupling datasets via an asynchronous SDM, therefore being able to IPL our COB lpars using the flashed copy of our CDS volumes that contained the ...
3 days ago in GDPS Submitted

JOBNAME as keyword on command QUEUE

What is IBM’s opinion on making it possible to include jobname as a keyword in the execution of the command QUEUE TRAN (just as jobname is a keyword on the command PSTOP)? For example, currently the possible keywords for the command areQUEUE TRAN ...
3 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM Submitted

Wait interval for WFI

What is IBM’s opinion on implementing a “wait interval” for WFI? Example of this functionality in action once implemented: having waited for the GU call to complete for the previously specified “WFI wait interval” (maybe possible to set and change...
3 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM Submitted

Create a table collecting SMF 99 subtype 1.

Kyndryl's Customer requires information which is provided by SMF_099 Subtype 1. If possible, create a table collecting this record SMF 99 subtype 1.
4 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics Submitted

Introduce some parameter to enable basic auth and OIDC(ADFS) be mixed.

Hi guys, I hope you are well. We have third party authentication using OIDC (ADFS) feature in zCEE to access ADFS server. To do this we don’t use EJBROLES, only ALL_AUTHENTICATED_USERS. I have to enable SAF to get access thru EJBROLES as well, So ...
4 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted