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Integrate RACF into OMEGAMON Web UI

As discussed with the customer and the development team, there is a regulatory requirement to integrate RACF with the OMEGAMON Web UI. If you have any questions regarding this requirement or how the customer envisions it, please reach out to: acha...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI Submitted

Support installation of Omegamon Web UI on RedHat Openshift

Due to corporate security policies, many clients cannot implement the OMEGAMON WebUI using Docker or Podman; consequently, the only option available to them, being both secure and approved, is Red Hat OpenShift.
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI Submitted

Manage host attached DASD with Cinder to attach and detach to ICIC VMs

In some storage performance needs scenarios (i.e. Openshift ODF Disks) is required to have very good disk performance, that cannot be achieved using QCOW2 files. So it could be vey useful to direct attach/deatch a DASD (online in the hosts and not...
11 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE 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...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development Submitted

Enable End-to-End Transaction Tracing for EntireX → CICS Integration in Instana ZAPM

Use Case Our organization uses webMethods EntireX adapter to call CICS via ECI protocol. We are implementing Instana for z/OS Application Performance Monitoring (ZAPM) to trace transactions on z/OS and visualize them in the Instana backend. Howeve...
9 months ago in EntireX 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...
6 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

zCDP COBOL API to be executed in CICS not just in batch

Currently COBOL API in zCDP only works when executed in batch but in our environment, it is not the preferred way. Application team are currently doing this via CICS (EXEC CICS PROGRAM(<module>) and Ironstream product module is used for that...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

Add tables definition for SMF 23

Add tables exploiting records SMF 23.
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics Submitted

GDPS LCPm Support Multiple SGC Vaults for MGM 4-Site Topology

Looking for GDPS LCP Manager (LCPm) to support multiple SGC vaults for MGM 4-Site topology. A single Safeguarded Copy vault creates a single point of failure in an otherwise highly resilient 4-site GDPS architecture. LCP Manager must support multi...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Submitted

Improve handling of EBCDIC code page IBM-930 for remote preprocessor output member naming in IBM Z Open Editor

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } When using the remote preprocessor feature in IBM Z Open Editor with source files encoded in IBM-930, an issue occurs wit...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE Submitted

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