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    Provide expiration time for CTC token in response

    Most industry standard token providers will include an expiration time/duration in the response. This helps applications to automatically refresh the token prior to expiration reducing failed auth attempts. Applications usually cache authenticatio...
    13 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Submitted

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R5+ - A TYPEDEF declaration should be able to be made anywhere in the program's source code (before its use).

    Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R5 introduces support for TYPEDEF and TYPE declarations. Currently, a TYPEDEF declaration can only be made in the FILE SECTION, WORKING-STORAGE SECTION, LOCALE-STORAGE SECTION, and LINKAGE SECTION of the DATA DIVISION. T...
    14 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

    Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
    23 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improving the performance of the TRIM intrinsic function

    Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS version V6R2 introduced the TRIM intrinsic function for removing leading and trailing spaces from a string. Before that, for our purposes, we developed a routine to find the useful length of a string based on the ...
    about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

    E3270UI - HUB DISPLAY PANEL needs to show ALL HUBS that are configured in the environment and ability switch between

    Currently we have 2 hubs and 2 teps that we need to be able to switch between for e3270ui Queries... and yet we currently only show the PRIMAY HUB.. No Secondary HUB is displayed and this used to be available in prior releases...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

    JSON GENERATE translate dash to underscore

    Dash is not supported in JSON Names in Java and other languages. JSON GENERATE default uses the COBOL name which usually includes dashes. It would be useful to have a phrase or option to translate all dashes in names to underscore. We have many la...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    REPLACE intrinsic function

    Have a REPLACE intrinsic function that replaces all (automatically trimmed) substrings X in a character field Z with another given (automatically trimmed) string Y, where the trimmed byte lengths of X and Y could differ.
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

    UNSTRING into Array

    UNSTRING should be able to take an internal table (“an array”) as receiving target, with TALLYING IN [tally] giving you the number of strings put into the array, so that you could do a PERFORM VARYING [ix] FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL [ix] > [tally] somet...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    We would like to see the CEC Serial Number added to the Kafka metadata/header to better identify where the data record is coming from.

    We will be receiving data stream records from multiple CECs to a Kafka cluster. Adding the serial number would be a unique identifier for determining the identity of the CEC/customer. For example, the system name is in the metadata/header portion,...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

    Add Opensearch as a ZCDP subscriber

    Currently, OpenSearch cannot be used as a ZCDP subscriber, but we would like this functionality to be implemented in a future ZLDA release.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 5 Under review

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