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IMS Catalog with mACB. IMPORT Cmd extension

With the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command selective import is not possible. Extend the IMPORT command with an option with the possiblity to specify individual member for the Import. Similar the 'member online change' in a classic ACBLIB environ...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

RSA multi-factor authentication support

RSA multi-factor authentication support for CICS Explorer CMCI connection and z/OS FTP connection.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 9 Delivered

TRNID is not recognized as a keyword in CICS program during ADDI build

Hello Team, During building one application, we came across with one error as below.The TRNID is not a recognized but when we checked the same its running fine in Endevor. IBM development team updated that unfortunately the TRNID isn't quite the c...

CKTI Retry Logic

CKTI ended with 2345 because we had a failure on CF structure (INITQ is shared in QSG) causing the shared INITQ to be unavailable. MQ in the meantime recovered the CF struc 17 secs later but CKTI had already ended and so we had to recycle CICS, we...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

JDBC access to dynamic arrays in IMS database segments

In several IMS databases dynamic array structures were used instead of having a bunch of very small dependend segments. Actually IMS Catalog supports the definition of fix arrays and dynamic arrays where the amount of array instances depends on a ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect: Enable back-end service selection based on a header value (intelligent routing)

z/OS Connect: Enable back-end service selection based on a header value (intelligent routing) In z/OS Connect EE, provide service selection based on a HTTP request header content. 1. Define a HTTP request header as a criteria for routing 2. Select...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Reduce vulnerabilities with TCPIP connections by providing RACF Keyring support.

There is a risk that exploitation of TCP/IP connection vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. All IzWS access would need to be reviewed which could lead to access being remov...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

IDz to ship a version of CDT matching its Eclipse neon

At level IDz 14.1.2, customer needs someadditional plugins from CDT.They tried to install CDT 9.2.1 (that's compatible for eclipse neon) with p2 update, but it fails.Customer thinks there has a compatible version of CDT to be integrated in IDz. (R...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Allow JCICS and JDBC calls in an OSGi bundle activator class

We do have the need to call JCICS and JDBC services within the activator class of an OSGi bundle.It is an essential requirement to have access to JCICS and JDBC during the initialisation of a bundle. Otherwise the software reuse of Java code alrea...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Improve CMAS EYUDREP space monitoring

Currently, when a CPSM CMAS's EYUDREP file runs out of space, the CMAS issues EYUXD0011E and tells the customer that no further updates will be processed, and the DREP must be enlarged. Enlarging the EYUDREP file requires an outage of the CMAS. Fu...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered