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Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add one decimal place to the reported CP Weight value, e.g. 31.4% instead of current 31%.

Customers can use three digits for their LPAR weight assignments (e.g. 314). Therefore, a two-digit reported percentage value may not accurately reflect the true weight the system is managing to.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to report resource consumption of multiple address spaces, for specific hours of the day only.

As an example, customer would like to report the combined CPU utilization of two address spaces, for only a peak period of several hours, on one report.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamic alter ctg maximum connection managers MAXCONNECT (other)

Ability to alter dynamically the connection manager maximum (MAXCONNECT), dynamically to avoid bounce of CTG to change the .ini file. This would allow for changes to be done on the fly. We do have multiple instances of the gateway, to stager recyc...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

After rotation, it should be possible to restore older versions of the key

After key rotation on z/OS, both versions, the old and the new one, are active. The old key can't be modified anymore. If the old key gets deleted by accident, it is currently not possible to restore it because the key sync operation is not availa...
2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

GDPS 4.1 Missing FlashCopy Devices Information

The information from VPCPFCSO panel does not provide the device number of the tertiary copy which is what we are interested in. Under GDPS 3.14, we can obtain the tertiary DASD info from GDPS under FCQueryS from VPCPQSH1 panel under DASD REMOTE COPY.
over 5 years ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enable SSL connections to Db2 z/OS for DWC

Security policy requires TCP/IP connections to Db2 for z/OS to be encrypted. Db2 systems may be customized with SECPORT only (no TCPPORT). Currently, configureDB.sh with RDBMS=DB2Z does not support DB_SSL_CONNECTION=true.
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
8 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration