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Artifactory Support

The support for z/D&T z/OS images and storage is basically (s)FTP. Support for Artifactory as an image repository would greatly enhance its flexibility.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Create trace of z hardware instructions

Create a trace file of execution history of the z hardware instructions similar to the CP TRACE facility in zVM. This should capture the virtual address+opcode to a file for processing later.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Address Stop / Storage alteration

An API to hook into emulated cpu so I could halt it when a particular s390 instruction is executed or an address hit and an API to inspect and alter emulated memory. All these APIs are intended for code coverage and debugging
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Manipulate virt 3390 based datasets

Update the virtual 3390s more easily while the emulator is *not* running - that is, lift some of the restrictions/limitations imposed by pdsUtil. These specially formatted Linux files that are “virtual 3390s” are requested to have these capabiliti...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Abend task if target program specified on PCT not DFHMIRS

On a DPL and Mirror Tranid Specified, Abend task if target program specified on target CICS PCT not DFHMIRS. We use a lot of zCEE and CTG. Been running into issues where CICS Administrator, specifies the target program name (application program ID...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

We would like digitally signed software downloads for the z/TPF Product Family

Enacting this policy (digitally signed software downloads) would save my team a lot of unnecessary paperwork.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

Provide highly efficient access to transaction cpu/specialty processor accumulated timings

Having requested information pertaining to specific fields found to contain accumulated cpu and specialty processor timings in the DFHTASN control block, I was informed that a detailed explanation of the management of these timings would not be fo...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ADD the posbility to use Header in the oAUTH

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support follows the The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework standard: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749fo . This does not specify any header than the Authorization header be flowed on the request. There is no way to confi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow definition of fields in the filler segment of an IMS db without required DBR for catalog

We currently define segments in a Data Base Definition (DBD), along with a key field. The remaining segment length does not have data fields defined in the DBD. We define data fields in external copybooks. Therefore, there is no outage of the data...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - IDz Support for Creating the sar file for DB2 Rest Service

Currently the only way to create a z/OS Connect Service for a DB2 for z/OS REST Call can be accomplished is through the z/OS Connect Toolkit. It would be nice to be able to generate the sar file through IDz
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration