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Support to Extended Format and EAS data sets

It is very important that ALL IBM products, including Omegamon family, support IBM newest (some not as new) technology such as Extended Format and EAS data sets. It's extremely annoying that we, customers have to micromanage ACS for IBM products t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Delivered

In CICS TS, for CICS Explorer, provide form-based authentication

CICS TS, CICS Explorer In our organization, the CICS TS Sytems Programmers are using CICS Explorer for a variety of functions. The choices for user authentication to a CICS TS region for us so far are Basic Authentication, or Client Certificate Au...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Allow CICS to use Passtickets instead of Passwords e.g. for Web Services

Using Passtickets instead of Passwords in CICS is currently very cumbersome. You need to use the r_ticketserv and r_gensec callable services (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha300/genpas.htm).The only CICS API s...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

(TPFUG/Visa) VFAFILL=NO support for TPFDF

PJ46019 provided support for VFAFILL=NO. This allowed read intensive utilities to read VFA candidate records from disk without also putting them in VFA. For read intensive utilities that are only going to read the records once, this avoided displa...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Request to add WTO message extraction

This is a request to add WTO message extraction when using the IDIXCEE invocation exit.
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Extend FILEDDWORD function

making DSORG known via fileddword
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

For FM/CICS, make the SDFHEXCI library and FMNCONN file allocations dynamically in the FMNELIBD exec

For both Ingram Group LLC and UNFI, we worked to create a rexx exec to dynamically allocate the SDFHEXCI library and FMNCONN file prior to invoking the FMNELIBD FM macro for File Manager/CICS. Customers do not want to add these files to the STEPLI...
over 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Generate DBD/PSB source from IMS Catalog for any earlier instances

Hi, We would like to see a batch utility or an option in IMS Explorer to generate DBD or PSB source of any of it's previous instances in IMS Catalog database. I have tried the option in IMS Explorer. It appears that we can generate source only for...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Delivered

DFHAM4838 Duplicate Definition - display the Groups.

Display the Existing Definition Group and the duplicate New Definition Group; make cleanup easier, when definition in multiple groups; can visually see in message, DFHAM4838 E PAR1CICG 749 Install of DB2ENTRY KEDR failed because an existing defi...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS-Region should tolerate an unexpected termination of JVM Server

If a JVMServer gets some trouble for different reasons, than it can lead to an unexpected termination of the JVMServer. When that occurs, than CICS should be able to tolerate that termination and continue working normally without the need to be re...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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