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Define a default cipher list used for CICS outbound webservices

Problem: We are running CICS webservices for years. For outbound webservices we haven't defined URIMAPs, so we were using the default cipher list getting from system SSL in the past.Now we have the need to use stronger ciphers. Solving this proble...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

2FA access to DWC or RestAPI

Instead of performing it’s own user/password authentication DWC reads the user from the HTTP header. DWC should be able to restrict the traffic it accepts by IP addresses or DNS names in order to have a trust relation with the proxy.
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add PDS member functionality to MVS Files filters

Allow the specification of a member name (fully qualified or wild carded) with a PDS name in an MVS Files filter. Include the member name with the dataset name when expanding the MVS Files filter and limit the member list to the member name (fully...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 23 Delivered

Feature Request - JSON PARSE - [" was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected

It is possible in the JSON standard for a top-level JSON to have an array, e.g. [{..}, {..}]. However, this cannot be read with the current JSON parse, instead you have to build an object around it with string processing so that you can parse it. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Delivered

Enhance Comms Stub to segment Data for CICS API Requestor services

The currently CALL interface in the zos Communication Stub is too rudimentary in nature and fails to take into account large and complex data structures now prevalent in many common external API's. This constraint is a major blocker for effective ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Provide a DB2 z/OS DDL without implicite created Objects

During installation of DBB Version 2.0.0 we found that the provieded DB2 z/OS DDL did not work for us.We are not allowed to us DDL which implicite creates Objects.So we need a DDL which has create Tablespace and create uniqe Index statments.The re...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

SMF 123 records should be logged for all access attempts to z/OS Connect

The ability to monitor authorization failures HTTP401 and file not found HTTP404 early failures is now available to be monitored in Omegamon/JVM but this same information is not written to the SMF 123 records. As SMF is the main security and audit...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook

We need the defaults changed in the DFHAID copybook to be compatible with GIT/DBB. The special characters are not round tripping from GIT to z/OS for DBB builds. In z/OS it displays as this "double bar" 02 DFHCLRP PIC X VALUE IS '¦'.In GIT this is...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Omegamon subsystem and z/OS history handling - store data in one or more permanent datasets with restart-point (reduce time)

When the loading LPAR (RMF/DDS data) will be IPLed or the Omegamon subsystem (OMIOSUB) goes down its dataspace is lost and another OMIOSUB in the Sysplex loads the same volume of data again with high CP CPU% and long loading times. Therefore store...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

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