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CTG Transaction Analysis CTG Explorer View

CICS Transaction Gateway Transaction Analysis; similar to Omegamon CTG Transaction Analysis view. This would show the Program; Tranid; target CICS Server, other; similar to Omegamon. See attached screenshot. Save last N last task flows, in a stora...
16 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Submitted

Add an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID to the output of zinfo command

It would be great if an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID could be added to the output of the zinfo command, or even the LP ID. Probably would make the most sense under the sys section.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Make it possible to insert certificates for 3270-server from web-based interface

It is common to connect to specific services in a z/OS-instance by 3270 terminal. These connections are secured by self-signed certificates only. It is easy to create a certificate for such an instance, but hard to apply it to an instance. Simplif...
about 1 month ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Make TLS-level to ADCD instances in Enterprise Edition of z Development & Test configurable via webbased interface

For high security requirements, it would be simple to allow an instance to accept TLS-1.3 connections only. Other could be simply switched to TLS-1.2 via webbased interface.
about 1 month ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Make TLS 1.2 default for all secure connections to zD&T instances derived from ADCD

In today's devops computing enviroments, compliance enforces minimum TLS 1.2 level for secure connections to them. But currently, ADCD instances for z/OS show up in security scans (Nexus) with TLS 1.0.
about 1 month ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
11 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
10 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IPLTYPE, set via IPLTYPE script statement, is not propagated to the KG-Sys

When setting the IPLTYPE/-MODE on the KG-Sys this is also promoted to the (LCP) R-Sys. The other way around this is not the case. So setting the IPLTYPE on the R-Sys is NOT propagated to the KG-Sys. In normal situations this is not a real issue. B...
11 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

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