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Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
21 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
22 days ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
22 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Provide ENQ / DEQ services

We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Product name change.

This product name is too confusing. Clients are confusing it with Watsonx Code Assistant for z. Perhaps another name like Watsonx Concierge for z, Watsonx Curator for Z. I've seen marketing email that even confuses the two products, and refers to ...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Increase the size of the Escalation Database to allow for more events to be stored.

The Escalation database has a maximum limit of records it can hold. (2200 events maximum). One the limit is reached, there is a warning messaged logged indicating the maximum number of events was exceeded. This message is written at program startu...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide License Strategy during installation for Value Unit Licensing (Host Based Licensing)

During installation of IDz the product defaults to using the Trial License and then allows for the setting of various license types. There is currently no setting for Value Unit Licensing (host based licensing) and if the trial license in effect f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Support Standard Secure TN3270e (i.e. TN3270e over TLS) console connections

Since this is now supported by OSA-ICC and more customer networks and IBM products are moving towards a "zero-trust" environment, this is often braught up in security audit reviews. Likewise a statement about the encryption mechanism between the S...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

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