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Basic authentication for CICS as a web service requester

For CICS as a web service requester with basic authentication defined in URIMAP, we developed a Global exit to activate at exit point XWBAUTH and supply the userID and password through a sequential file set-up and accessible by security team.Since...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS web service requester PIPELINE

CICS Web service requester pipeline does not permit writting into HTTP header. We use SOAPACTION container and set it up in a handler program to insert additional HTTP headers but there should be easier ways like using API WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Stop all IMS ODBM PST related work if the associated IMS Connect DRDA JDBC Socket goes away

There are several situations, when the IMS Connect DRDA socket goes away, but the ODBM thread/PST continues its work or hangs. Examples are, PST in Lock Wait in PI systems. DL/I call resulting in a database scan or other long running work, that wa...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Not under consideration

Automatically populate a Proejct in Build Client

Provide a feature that would automatically open each member of a PDS-like dataset or workstation folder and determine what language that member is, then automatically move it to the correct folder in the Project.Objects where a language type canno...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IDz - PDS Member stats need to be created when not present

Currently we do not have a setting in LPEX corresponding to ISPF STATS. In ISPF, stats are creted based on the setting STATS = ON or OFF, and LPEX creates stats only if the dataset already has stats.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Possibility to import data in subsets

Subsets are a powerfull option to be able to build parts of your system. I can make subsets in various ways, but what I would like to have is the possibility to import data from a .csv file. I can export a subset to a .csv and edit it in excel, bu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

OXES should have log scanning and filtering capability

Logs from z/OS, DFSMShsm and even DFSMSrmm can be a valuable resource to the storage administrator. OMEGAMON For Storage should be able to process a log with user defined filters to isolate certain error or operational events. Information from the...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Tasks - Open TCB

I would like the CPSM services run out of QR TCB. This enhancement will provide parallelism and will reduce CPU Usage and QR ratio would be higher.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zappbuild Assembler.groovy DD updates

For Assembler.groovy to work in my environment I have had to make the following modifications. I think these for fit nicely into the zappbuild application We use SYSTERM linkedit parm and would like it to optionally print along with the other prin...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

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