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CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

PCOM FTP client file size limitation

PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Future consideration

Need PCOMM FTP to support implicit TLS (no AUTH TLS)

Currently the PCOMM FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be n...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Store Up/Down Message in ASF and show in DISPINFO

The message(s) that triggered ACTIVMSG, resp. TERMMSG, should be stored in the Automation Status File (ASF) along with the already available timestamp.This information should then also be shown by DISPINFO. This requirement has been discussed at E...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SMP/E automation

We want the ability via a rest service/reset API to go somewhere on the web and get a list of fixes that are available for an SMP based product. There should be a rest endpoint that tells me the latest version and be able to grab it. Would also in...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sharing one Java Shared Classcache between different users and its restrictions

We plan to use the Java Shared Classcache for our Java Batch Jobs to improve CPU usage and performance of our batch jobs. The batch jobs use for security reasons different users but should share one classcache. Sharing the same Shared Class Cache ...
8 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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