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Group List Support in DSSGROUP

It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow for JSON based Identity Propagation

Update CICS TG RAR to support container-based authentication from OpenLiberty that utilized JWT/Bearer token support. If a client presents JWT and this JWT is validated by the OpenLiberty runtime via feature OIDC with JWT: OpenID Connect Client 1....
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2

Allow CTG to connect to JWK endpoint URL

Currently CTG is able to validate a JWT with a public key inside a RACF keyring. Unfortunetly this certificate can change often and can cause some issue. Instead of RACF, it would be great that CTG be able to call an JWK endpoint URL to catch the ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CTG6421W HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0

When CTG, gets 'CTG6421W ... HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0", due to backend Target CICS Regions being recycled; CTG to provide a corresponding message that after CICS Target region restarts, a corresponding message indicating the CTG Gateway reco...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

closetimeout statistics in CTG runtime and explorer

provide statistics on count of tasks rolled back by closetimeout=0 or other N value. Interval and Life of Gateway and recorded in SMF.
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration