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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.
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Under review

EXCI Policy Limiting Batch EXCI Pipes for same job

EXCI Policy, or other means, to Limit excessive Batch EXCI Pipes for same job. A single batch job could loop taking all the EXCI Pipes; would want a way to block one job, to prevent others from opening an EXCI Pipe. Limit would be configurable.
9 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Allow further defining of PROGRAMNAME in the Application/Business Group criteria specification.

Change the application/business group specification of PROGRAMNAME to be CICSPROGRAMNAME, DB2PROGRAMNAME, and ADDSPACEPROGRAMNAME
9 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add the Address Space "Work Type Indicator" as a classification rule for Application/Business Groupings

This would be useful, because it would give the user the ability to differentiate between batch jobs, started tasks, OMVS, and TSO address spaces.
9 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

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
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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

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

Cobol Editor BIDI support

Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

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