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I’d like you to enable Base64 encoding.

I’d like you to make it possible to use Base64 encoding to prevent truncation, alteration, or garbling when setting values in JSON that may contain control characters or arbitrary bytes in the 0x00–0xFF range, and/or to embed (serialize) images, k...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Functionality already exists

Add CICS Task Runtime, Explorer and Task Resource Table, as in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-83

Add Task Runtime to CICS Explorer and the CICS Task Table. This was done for Policies some time ago, it would be good to have in Explorer, so to be able to view the long runners, prior to setting up a New Policy Definition. The Policy part was don...
25 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Functionality already exists

CPSM - Add Task UOW Age to Task Resource Table. As done in INQUIRE TASK

CPSM - Add Task UOW Age to Task Resource Table. as in INQUIRE TASK. Add to Explorer Field Dropdown Selection list of available fields. Would be good to know if task taking frequent syncpoint, and how old the syncpoint. This value is shown in EXEC ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Functionality already exists

EXPORT function - schedule different times on different days of the week

Provide the capability in the EXPORT function to be able to schedule different times on different days of the week. The processing of the SMF data to be uploaded to the Intellimagic Cloud Service occurs at a different time on weekends as compared ...
6 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Functionality already exists

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.
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Functionality already exists

Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Functionality already exists

[CDADUMP] Option to redirect outputs to files

Hi, This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS. The CDADUMP utility, a JCL version of the command-line dwardfump utility, allows you to extract DWARF information stored in a...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Functionality already exists

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Functionality already exists

Need support for EBCDIC code page IBM-278

Supported codesets - IBM Documentation indicates that IBM-278 is not supported. Customers need support for IBM-278 in IBM ZCodeScan which relies on IBM Python to scan their COBOL source in native EBCDIC IBM-278.
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python Functionality already exists

Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS Functionality already exists

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