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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
10 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under 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...
3 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, ...
3 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 ...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

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