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Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve Enterprise COBOL 5/6 performance in high volume CICS transaction environments

Enterprise COBOL 5/6 includes a completely rewritten "back end" that generates high performance object code. It's "claim to fame" is the significant performance improvements it offers customers. However, those performance improvements are only ava...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

option to switch to Superuser mode

Explorer for z/OS needs an option to switch to Superuser mode (SU).
about 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Allow api key as credentials in host connection

Add 'api key' as an option on credentials for a host connection in the z/os explorer.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Prevent a performance impact while displaying Shared Temporary Storage using CPSM

If CPSM is used to display a very large Shared Temporary Storage , CICS scans the entire Shared Temporary Storage, causing a performance impact . My idea is to have CICS "throttle" or "segment" its scan , allowing other work to progress avoiding ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

LPEX JCL editor needs to have the same syntax support as JCL editor

LPEX JCL editor currently does not support JCL statements such as EXPORT and related keywords.IDz LPEX JCL editor does not recognize EXPORT statement and related keywords such as SYMBOLS etc.When JCL is coded with EXPORT statement, error - Incorre...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Not under consideration

IBM Debug: Warn for active "skip all breakpoints"

Hi IBM, In the Remote Debugger in IDz: To avoid debugging with all breakpoints off: please add a warning if the "skip all breakpoints" switch in the menu is active during start of a new debug session.
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Balancing workloads for machines with a different physical capabilities

In our situation, we have two production LPARs, each one is on a different MF. Each TOR dynamically routes all transactions to all AORs (on both LPARs) We would really like to be able to control the workload distribution between the LPARs. Since t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration