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PINNED Liberty z/OS - identity propagation for ctg - Case sensitivity issue
I would like to request to give Liberty z/OS a new property to upper case user IDs. WebSphere traditional sends the user IDs always in upper letters and while migrating the applications to Liberty z/OS, we are facing problems when the user log in ...

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OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing.

OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing. Would like to route to file, for basic testing of new OTEL feature, since no collectors available. I saw a video where this was done for other product (Not CTG), where for basic initial testin...
about 9 hours ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

CTG Explorer - Add .ini file column, to view

CTG Explorer - Add .ini file column, to view.
9 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Submitted

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

Password spray alerts various sources

zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

CTG for z/OS Resource Adapter for Jakarta EE 9.1 Application Servers

As of now there is no CTG for z/OS Resource Adapter for Jakarta EE 9.1 Application Servers.The documentation for CTG v9.3 does not mention Jakarta EE at all, while the documentation for CTG 10.1.0 only mentions Jakarta EE 10: https://www.ibm.com/d...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0

SSL support for the statistics port in Explorer plugin

CICS/TG v10.1 now allows us to use protocol@statssslapi.parameters but the v3.1.0.1 version of the CTG plugin for z/OS Explorer doesn't support this encrypted communication. I think it would be a good idea to release a new version of the plugin th...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

MFA User Segment alerts

Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 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

Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration