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Enable DPoP support on OAuth 2.0 under z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition

We have noticed several types of frauds when using tokens via OAuth 2.0. To address this issue, RFC 9449 was published with the implementation of DPoP (Demonstrating Proof of Possession.) "DPoP is an OAuth security extension for binding tokens to ...
5 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Auditing of events caused by EQQEVPGM

Currently, actions triggered via EQQEVPGM are not logged in the audit log in a way that makes them clearly traceable. Take, for example, an SRSTAT in the following form: Application : IZWSP#TRK#TEST01 z/OS TWS Tracker Test Operation : IZT7 50 zOS ...
3 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

Add tables definition for SMF 23

Add tables exploiting records SMF 23.
5 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics Submitted

Implement field expansion for ADABAS the same way as DB2

This feature is very important to analyze the impact that we have on the ADABAS database side, the same way we have from DB2. This will improve the view from the Application overall architecture, in order to give a full coverage for the users and ...
3 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Submitted

Allow -o option to extract the tar archive with the running user as file owner

In wazideploy-generate the tar archive is currently extracted without using the -o option. This means that the file owner will be kept as it was when the package was build.When a different user is used for the deployment than the user that is runn...
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Submitted

Implement support for --dependencyFile in zapp.yaml for Assembler Programs

Currently when you use VS Code with the zapp.yaml parameter "--dependencyFile ${dependencyFile}" on a Assembler build, the following error is generated and the build stops. This request is to have Assembler support when using --dependencyFile. CRR...
8 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE Submitted

Improve handling of EBCDIC code page IBM-930 for remote preprocessor output member naming in IBM Z Open Editor

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } When using the remote preprocessor feature in IBM Z Open Editor with source files encoded in IBM-930, an issue occurs wit...
10 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE Submitted

GDPS support for a 3-way Copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
1 day ago in GDPS Submitted

GDPS support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
1 day ago in GDPS Submitted

In a GDPS MM (Metro Mirror) environment, when Site 2 disk is unavailable (like a warm start), temporarily change the relationship from MM to GM (Global Mirror) so I/O to primary (Site 1) disk is not on hold.

Temporarily change MM to GM when Site 2 DS8K is having issues. Once Site 2 had recovered, wait 5 minutes before switching the relationship back to MM.
1 day ago in GDPS Submitted

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