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    Improve Diagnostics for in IPCONN Auto-Install capability

    Background : We are in the process of evaluating and deploying the IPCONN Auto-install facility and have constructed a program in line with the published template albeit for z/OS Connect and not CTG. Issue : During the evaluation / verification we...
    2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1

    Tolerant Reading web service requesters

    Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

    With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Provide access to "PolicyDB Name" in Build Post-Processing EXIT INGEX02, similar to Build Pre-Processing EXIT INGEX10.

    Q. Why is it useful?A. Having access to the PDB name in the exit would allow additional actions to take place, based on BUILD return code, such as automatically creating a "point in time" backup of the Policy that just created the Automation Contr...
    5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

    We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

    The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

    One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Suppression of SDF Alerts to IBM_SYSAUTO-SDF Without Disabling SA Policy

    Currently, SDF alerts generated by IBM System Automation (SA) are automatically sent to the IBM_SYSAUTO-SDF destination. However, there is no native mechanism to suppress or redirect these alerts on a granular basis without disabling the entire SD...
    5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

    As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    Extend the Application Class concept to other applicable resource types, such as Application Groups and Monitor Resources.

    Q. Why is it useful? A. Reduces time and effort fulfilling "customer" (e.g. Support and Operation staff) requests. Q. Who would benefit from it? A. Both automation administrators and their customers: Administrators benefit by quickly inheriting pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

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