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Provide Round Robbin fashion of IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions for WAS z/OS servers running CTG local

We need high availability for round robin IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions from WebSphere z/OS application servers running CTG in local mode.Similar feature is offered by DFHCXURM exit where EXCI connetions can be routed to multip...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

For new data/time input data fields we would like the data to be persistent

Now that PTF's UI79367/8/9 are applied -PH42125: CICS CONFIGURATION MANAGER ENHANCED TO COLLECT & PASS ADDITIONALINFORMATION FOR PROCESSING BY CHANGE PACKAGE EXIT PROGRAM - we would like the data saved and presented back to the CM panels. The ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

BOOLEAN-values in COBOL JSON-processing

We need a way to process booleans in conjunction with REST-Services in COBOL. As boolean-values are nothing extraordinary in web-applications, it is absolutely necessary to process them.
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Update the IBM Explorer for z/OS document

During the installation of IBM Explorer for z/OS, while I was setting up encrypted communication, the manual asks to create a separated configuration for testing. One of the steps is to customize a second instance of RSE daemon, then add a job car...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

CDP does not support ATTLS

In our company we us ATTLS to encrypt network traffic of the mainframe applications. According to IBM case TS004537625, CDP does not support ATTLS to encrypt the traffic from the data streamer to the data receivers.IBM has always encouraged the us...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Add the hability to parse a json file containing only an array with the JSON PARSE statement

In order to be able to process a REST/json API response, we need to be able to parse a json file containing only an array, beggining with '[' and ending with ']'. Wich is a valid json object. We had opened the support case TS004314426 on this matt...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Add the ability to specify an FTP options for CICS explorer

When they use HFS file from CICS explorer and the outout of HFS file list ( ls -al output ) contains lower case charactors, it got gabage as KATAKANA charactors. Thisi cuase CICS explorere does not shows HFS file output. If customer use "KATAKANA"...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

Ignore case remain inactive with 'Compare with' for programs that have different sequence number AND case on the same line

When we compare programs, the button 'Ignore Case' in the toolbar has no effect in Compare editor if there are both different sequence number AND different case existing in a same line.In this case, the line displays a difference that should be el...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Delivered

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