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CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Availability to set an application or operation deadline using either +x Calendar day or +x Working day

The deadline offset is defaulted to Working day and may be overriden using OPERDALL parameter in the BATCHOPT when running Long Term plan maintenance. That parameter is global and not targeting specific operations.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support finding lower-case copybooks from USS directories

When compiling COBOL programs using the cob2 command in USS it is likely that the copybooks also reside in USS (because they are cloned from Git, for example). The current implementation only supports finding upper-case copybooks. It is, however, ...
26 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted
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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

A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Dynamicaly request the usage value of Network OCC IDs

We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and this is not a seldom event in our environment. So we want to monitor the usage of the NWK OCC IDs value.
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

The max value (65535) of Network OCC IDs is too small in huge environments

We run into dataloss situations when the usage of NetWork OCC IDs is 100%. We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and we got this event very often at night before we schedule a daily planning job (e.g. CP Replan). In a situation when we have to av...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Sample SCLM RAM need to handle SCLM type extensions

Why it is useful? - The current sample SCLM RAM does not work with type extension and to make it work, a lot of customizations are required for the repository access manager in order to connect to SCLM from IDz. If this change is implemented, the ...
20 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 0 Submitted

Add MacOS support for locally installed client

We need MacOS support for the HoD locally installed client as part of our mainframe community work with MacOS.
20 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 0 Submitted

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...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

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