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    For the COBOL API add support for IPv4

    The new COBOL API only support IPv6 connections, we don't have the IPv6 stack enabled on our mainframe and have no plans to do so at this time. IPv4 support will make the API more widely available to users.
    1 day ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    26 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Don't include 64-bit common buffer storage for HBOSMF task in a SVC dump

    We have experienced sysplex wide slow down events due to dump processing having to capture large 64-bit common memory objects. To prevent dump processing causing system wide performance issues, it was recommeded by IBM to not include 64-bit common...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

    Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
    11 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Additional fields required by UKO Crypto Connect CAT

    We're working on API for IBM Z Crypto Discovery & Inventory product which provides SMF records streaming and further processing. We noticed during implementation that there are fields missing in SMF 82 subtypes 31/40/41/42/44/45/46. These miss...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1

    Add hardcoded TCP/IP Support for SMF119 subtype 12(zert) Records.

    Support is currently provided for subtype 11 records defined in the base code of zCDP5.1. Added support of subtype 12's will allow us to track more detailed TLS/IPSEC certificate information. We will also be able to view TLS/SSH failed handshakes.
    4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

    SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

    We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

    Be able to throttle incoming trafic rates based in USEID using CEX

    We believe it would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows throttling of incoming transaction rates in IMS based on the associated user ID. This approach would help safeguard the system against excessive workloads and enable more preci...
    2 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Adjustable maximum messages per block for Generic HTTP subscribers

    We have a requirement to send z/OS messages (OPERLOG) to a security operations centre (SOC). The Generic HTTP subscriber of IBM z Common Data Provider sends the data, but an arbitrary number of messages are batched together. Our requirement is to ...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    iZWS datastream to support wildcards like * or % in the PATH

    Today I have to define 2 datastreams to see EQQCPD1 and EQQCDP2
    4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

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