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Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Under review

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include User Name and Mapped User ID details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to filter z/OS Connect API Provider metrics on my ODP dashboard based on the User Name and Mapped User ID of requests. This will allow us to gain insights into usage across different distributed applicatio...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include HTTP Return Codes details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect Site Reliability Engineer, I want to be able to view request HTTP Return Codes for z/OS Connect APIs in the ODP datasets. Today, I can see a "count" metric of HTTP Error Codes, but not the actual Error Codes. This will allow me, ...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include z/OS Connect HTTP Header details in metrics published to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to view header details, such as Correlation ID, in the z/OS Connect Request data that is sent to Omegamon Data Provider. This will allow me to add filters to my dashboards to view specific requests, using ...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

Add SMF 119.3 and SMF 119.70 records to IntelliMagic Vision

The new records would be in an Enterprise tool that would be available to Mainframe/Storage technicians
8 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

z/OS Connect does not currently have a way to retrieve a list of the API requesters deployed in a server configured with OpenAPI3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides functionality to list APIs, but it lacks a feature for listing API Requesters deployed on a z/OS Connect EE Server configured with OpenAPI 3. In contrast, with OpenAPI 2, API Requesters can be listed by sending ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted. In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

Provide a z/OS ENQ query comand

There are many ways to query the system/dataset ENQs on z/OS but there is no way presently via ZOAU. Please provide an easy to use query capability for ZOAU that does not require operator authority to issue the d grs command. See both ISPF ISRDDN ...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted