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Leaving certain Omegamon KD2 parameters empty in the configuration will cause RTE failures.

Why: Validating Omegamon configuration parameters in the configuration manager/PARMGEN will prevent failures in the RTE, and thus production issues. The issue: Currently Omegamon KD2 parameters are not validated for being left empty or undefined. ...
6 days ago in IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS 0 Submitted

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Adding UTF-8 support to the CARMA repositories view

In the CARMA repositores view you can view and edit source files stored in Endevor. However some sourcetypes are in UTF-8 (in our case wsdl's and xsd's) but on the moment sources in UTF-8 cannot be viewed or editted because it is not supported by ...
17 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 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.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

CSM supports Metro Mirror with Site 4 replication, can GDPS support this configuration, too?

According to DORA regulation, it is possible to have a 2-region infrastructure with the possibility to have a synchronous copy between them, an MTMM 4-Site. This gives one the chance to do a region switch with no disruption to the customers. Nowad...
9 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Add a shortcut to get to queue details quicker

When we are on the workspace KOBSMQ, can you please add a pastpath option Q to get us to directly to workspace KMQQUTAS.
7 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Submitted

When looking at transaction IO and the transaction touched MQ, then I would like to be able to get to the MQ queue definition in the MQ monitor from the CICS transaction history

When we look at CICS transaction history and specifically transactions touching MQ, then in the history we can find queue stats. When we place a S next too the queue name on workspace KCPTDCMS, we would like to see an additional shortcut to allow ...
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
13 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

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