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MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Setting a custom value for the Content-Type HTTP header in z/OS Connect API response messages

We are currently trying to align the error messages sent by our company's REST APIs with this RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs). One of the standards in the RFC is setting the Content-Type HTTP head...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide WTO Capability

This may be similar to https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOAU-I-15 in that the desire is to write to an operator console. To expand on this idea, I would like to have a reply option that will block the caller until a reply is issue...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Nested Occurs Depending On (ODO) for JSON Generate

When several "Occurs Depending On" (ODO) are nested into each other, modifying the number of occurence for an ODO during run time change the way the storage is reorganized. We want nested ODO to behave in a way that would generate JSON tables with...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enhance DCAT command to support GDGORDER (LIFO/FIFO)

[11:57:39]GSM@estonia /u/home/gsm $ dls svtlog.syslogd.es.attls.* | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo -n {} - ; dcat {} | head -1 | cut -c1-15" 2>/dev/null Results in the following SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS.G4115V00 -Jul 23 16:29:31SVTLOG.SYSLOGD.ES.ATTLS...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

How to prevent queueing msg's for specific transaction

When a bmp is inserting msg's on the IMS-Q for a specific transaction which can not be processed by IMS due to a logical error, IMS-Q is raising all the time which ultimately can lead to a fail of IMS. While a lot of bmp's are running at that time...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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