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Facilitate UTF-8 in the ZCEE service provider

In CICS Channels / Service Provider ..... Currently the z/OS Connect EE toolkit does NOT accept/recognise PIC U (i.e. UTF-8) statements as introduced in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v6.3. We have a requirement to ensure that ZCEE facilitates requests...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enable the transmission of chained certificates through a configuration option

The current SSL processing for InetD transmits the first certificate contained in the designated certificate file. Provide an SSL configuration option for InetD, MQ, High-speed connector, etc. to also transmit any chained certificates contained in...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

More easily configure the configuration of a userbuild

The configuration of a userbuild under IDZ requires, among other things, access paths for the groovy script and for the workspace and the output space.These input fields should be optional and you should be able to type them or copy values into them.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Future consideration

Support alternate jobname for HVT volser tasks

When the primary HVT tape server tasks initiates a volume specific function (mount, xfer) it starts a subordinate task with command S servertask.Vvolser. The result is that when capturing CPU usage statistics everything shows up under the serverta...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Identify .jar file manifest dates to identify old code

Most .jar files have a manifest that contains information about the package. This includes package date. This information is helpful in identifying old version of things like Apache servers.Detail info about manifest:https://docs.oracle.com/javase...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Omegamon/IMS TEP and e3270UI functions not available

Following on from the following PMRs (and others):17291,101,61617292,101,61617293,101,61638495,999,616we have the following requirements not currently provided: 1. How do we find the Application Support coded in the TEMS from either the TEP or e32...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support for Elliptic Curves x448 and x25519 in Java 8 SDK for z/OS.

Java 8 is globally used by a number of applications in Traditional zWebSphere v8.5 and v9.0, the company standard requires the latest elliptic curves to secure applications externally and internally.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enable CTC to execute as a z/OS container

CTC provides software emulation for tape and enables the use of object storage to maintain a low cost inventory that is DR ready. Because all of this work is being done at the software layer they impact to system CPU resources can be notable and u...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Consistent and product provided (dialog) functionality to handle PDB and SOCNTL via GDG

Currently there is no product provided solution to have a time consistent backup from PDB and SOCNTL. To have a GDG support for the SOCNTL the manual descibes a way to build and copy only the SOCNTL manualy. From our perspective this isn't a way t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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