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Define Product Suite Exclusions should be at the SYSPLEX level, not Repository level

Currently, when a suite/bundle is enabled/excluded, it impacts every system that is stored in that repository. So if a Repository holds the data for a zCloud or shared infrastructure, this will impact every system held there. We have multiple zClo...
9 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Future consideration

Variable for specifying output length when creating copybook is not created

''- When creating a Cobol copybook with the current API specification file (json), a variable for specifying the output length is always created if it is a String.- When creating an outbound copybook, if you give the "characterWhiteSpace" option i...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Only one API can be re-executed in the zCEE server Refresh command

'- When the Refresh command is executed, all new deployment file APIs in the deployment path are refreshed.- When deploying a server, it is hoped that other APIs will not be affected (for HotDeploy purposes), but there is no function to refresh by...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Maintain variable names when importing copybooks from API Toolkit

'- When loading copybook from API Toolkit, the "-" (Dash) character is changed to "_" (Underbar). M/F standard variable name naming rules are different from the standardization issue and can become a point of failure due to developer's error. (ex)...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Support for multiple distribution paths

'- Supports only a single deployment directory per build file type for both inbound and outbound (ex) <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services- It is impossible to separate folders by application code (customer...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Python program control

We're writing an C module for Python that uses __passwd service. Unfortunately, it couldn't be used without issue, because the python shared objects and binaries are not delivered with extattr +p (program control). So we've to code our own usermod...
about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Planned for future release

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.
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration
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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 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...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

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