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Add MFA support to z/OS FTP Perspective

The z/OS Explorer's z/OS perspective for FTP connections should be enhanced to support MFA authentication. Currently, it only supports userID + password authentication.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

COPYLIB DD for COPY code, SQLLIB DD for SQL INCLUDE

Assembler copy code and macros are distinct types of elements that can be mutually dependent. Because they are read from the same SYSLIB DD they need to be assigned different names. A COPYLIB DD for copy code would support matching named macros an...
about 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Flat file input for RANA exit instead of recompile process

Request to allow RANA exit to read a flat file as input and perform actions instead of modifying the EXIT each time with changes and recompiling it.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor "SURROUND" improvement

In Java, the "Surround" is performed regardless of how lines are markeda) You break the first line and the last one but the lines in between are fully marked b) You mark a full group of statements from first character of statement one to last char...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support Passphrase and CA-TopSecret messages

Currently passphrase is only supported via SAF. SAF when used with CA-TopSecret does not return important messages to user. Current exit for CA-TopSecret (KLSTSNEV) hasn't been updated since 1996 and doesn't support use of passphrase.
over 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Purging CICS task by predefined elapsed time regardless of CICS commands executed nor any CICS resources involved

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS offer Resource limit for purging tasks running out of different kind of resource limit. Resource Limiting considerations. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rlim-resource-limiting-facility-considerations However, this have ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CICS/PA to save dictionary records for later use

We would like CICS/PA to write out the dictionary records it finds as it reads CICS 110 data. Then as dictionary records age off, they can be removed (not copied) to the dictionary file.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration