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The communication between DWC & DB2 (any RDBMS) needs to be encrypted)

When using the DWC for querying the Historical or Statistical tables the communication should be configurable to use encryption - TLS.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Provide compatibility between DB2 v13 and CICS Interdependency Analyzer

We are upgrading to DB2 v13 and were informed that CICS IA is not compatible with this new version - we learned this via our IBM ticket TS013775865. They suggested that we submit an RFE if we would like this to be enhanced to support DB2 v13. We w...
10 months ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Possibility to filter z/OS syslog, in order to send only selected messages to subscriber

Customer requested the possibility to filter log messages from z/OS syslog, in order to send only desired MSGids to a subscriber instead of managing all the stream.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

PLI record support for QSAM

Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Planned for future release

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
11 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
5 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Modify the iOS (iPad) virtual keyboard for HACP Extended Edition so that it does not cover the 3270 emulator session.

HACP Extended Edition is being evaluated a replacement solution to legacy handheld scanners used to connect to mainframe 3270 emulation sessions. In the current state, the iPad virtual keyboard covers portions of the ISPF 3270 session, making it d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
5 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

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