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Add new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999

Please enhance V5.3 to support a new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999 as the “internal” format of the existing patterns YYYY-MM-DD-HH.MI.SS.999999YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.999999YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999999 everywhere in DATETIME, REPATTERN, MINDATE...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule

Allow a system policy rule to be defined when multiple conditions evaluate true. For example when the MQ connection is enabled AND the DB2 connection is enabled. Another example would be when multiple bundle resources achieve a desired state.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

SNI Support for outbound connections in CICS

Some of our clients setup a server for example at Amazon (AWS).CICS can not connect to the server through HTTPS due to SNI enabled. Unfortunately there are No easy way for CICS sysprog to understand the underlying protocoll used.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements

We have been using BAS (Business Application Services) frequently for resource definitions in our environments. Currently we use WUI for BAS Administration views and BATCHREP (Batched repository update requests). It would be nice to enhance Z/OS e...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

64-bit RBD debugger and Remote VSAM; Support for Z/VSE SAM ESDS files in VSEDDM and VSE connector

This RFE contains three items. 1) Z/VSE SAM ESDS support to RBD's remote VSAM access (via VSEDDM and VCS)3) Possibility to select which VSE Connector's port VSEDDM is using2) VSEDDM support for 64-bit RBD
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Change the path of the extensions directory with the properties files to our naming conventions

For now, there are 2 Directories under the ../var/... path. It is possible to adapt the Servers path to our naming conventions, but it is not yet possible for the extensions Directory..../var/zosconnect/extensions/... should NOT be hard coded.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered

USS filters in Export Remote JAR dialog

When developing Java batch applications our teams want to execute and test them as fast as possible. Therefore the "Export Remote Jar" functionality is used to reduce the number of manual steps. The dialog when selecting the remote target director...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

CLSS - Preserve Session with multiple logon from the same user

Customer have the possibility to activate on PC more than one CL/SS session, but this tool have a different behavior from the Session Manager because it isn't possible to have on the same PC two CL/SS session with the same applications. Using the ...
about 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered