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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...
4 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...
4 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

zSecure - User defined character set for PHRASE when using C4R.USER.=ATTR

With OA64290 the ability was introduced to define in the APPLDATA for C4R.USER.=ATTR PHRASE. That support is great as it allows to generate by default passphrases instead of passwords. However, zSecure generates a passphrase selecting all characte...
over 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Command Verifier 2 Future consideration

Enhance Pre/Post Command process so that the APPLDATA would allow lowercase chars in the =PSTCMD

I have a need to always build OMVS segments with /u/userid in the home directory field Someone always ends up specifying /tmp and I need Command Verifier to ensure the following is always set OMVS(HOME(/u/userid) PROGRAM(/bin/sh)) So i'm envisioni...
11 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Command Verifier 0 Under review

Ability to control multiple Interval values for Password or Phrase Intervals

The profile C4R.USER.PHRINT.owner.userid allows for APPLDATA to be specified where you can control access to the usage of a specific interval or no interval. In our environment I could only use C4R.USER.PHRINT.** but I would need multiple APPLDATA...
over 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Command Verifier 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

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Enable AAM to run in a passive mode

Enable AAM to be configured in such a way to see system events without interfering with intervention by other tools. This capability can be leveraged to refine AAM INCLUDE processing based on actual system workload before full activation.
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
over 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration