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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...
19 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

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, ...
19 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

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 ...
19 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
about 2 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

z/OS Connect Designer support on ARM processors

In the Designer documentation (e.g. Create and edit an IBM z/OS Connect API project with Docker Desktop) it is referred to that it can be used on Mac systems, but however, when trying to download the image, this isn't available: jmfernandezp@Josem...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Under review

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Under review

In addition to open idea ZWS-I-230 besides removing the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME, it would be better to remove parameters BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME and just use SETSSI commands

We are continuing to have a lot of serious issues resulting from the use of the BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME parameters to make changes to the subsystems for zWS controllers and trackers, for example recent HIPER APARs PH59155 and PH59387. The BUILDSSX a...
7 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Under review

Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
8 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Under review

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