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More granular message is password/passphrase change fails

Supersession is not able to deliver qualified error message, if a user is requested to change his password / his passphrase. a) new Password/passphrase is ok - everything is ok b) new Password/passphrase is not ok - Supersession delivers only a me...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Network security credential propagation should have a parm for activation

We have a very high volume IMS environment, using IMS Connect. The Network Security Credential Propagation (NSCP) enhancement in IMS V15 will allow additional security information (up to 504 bytes) to flow in from the client side if all components...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Modify Status Command gives no response to the Requester

Via our System-Automation we monitor the TWS-Trackers and the TWS-Controller. Every hour the status of the systems is retrieved via the modify status command. The output of the command is only written to the syslog. The requester gets no response....
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support tolerant reader principle with CICS web services

In various systems the tolerant reader principle as specified by Postel's Law is used as a design principle. Currently CICS will not accept items which are not specified in the current schema of a web service.Please provide a function or parameter...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Missing functions in COBOL

To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

IDz DBB user build discovers dependencies only for COBOL and PLI

IDz tool will not auto select the Maclib (copybook library) for ALC modules when trying to run the DBB user build wizard setup. We have to manually select it each time to start the DBB configuration. (Works for cobol but no for ALC)
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Change KCIPARSE to use the Configuration Manager RTEDEF defined variables

When using RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y , variables can be defined as System variable, or they may be defined in the RTEDEF(VAR$GLOB) and/or RTEDEF(VAR$lpar) members. When running the Configuration Manager (CM) GENERATE action, variables defined by the ...
6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create CICS web service assistant to transform YAML into COBOL, or any utility to provide mapping between YAML and COBOL copybook.

YAML users need BINDJCL and the ability to convert YAML file COBOL equivalent copybook. Per IBM CICS doesn't provide anything to perform a mapping between YAML and COBOL
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration