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GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
9 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
13 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

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, ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
3 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
29 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Under review

Increase the character limt of the JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition.

Right now, the character limit of JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition is limited to 8 Chars. However the character limit allowed for a Unix file in z/OS is 1023 Chars. The 8-character limit on JVM profiles restricts our abil...
6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

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