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Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

Date/Time stamp on the CM Package record

We are looking for a new field(could be optional to support existing customers) on CM package where we can provide details of the installation Date & Time of the package.We like the AD team to fill in the this field and we can then use it to i...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

US Section 508 compliance - colour blindness

Add "hover" capability in the Graph View for colour blind developers.

Program Control Flow fails on Cobol Editor error token

RDz Cobol editor doesn't tolerate the missing space and throws 'Error_Token unexpected tokens ignored' error. This in turn causes the Program Control Flow to fail. RDz COBOL editor behavior is inconsistent with the mainframe COBOL compiler where a...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Batch interface to package resources

A batch interface to package resources and groups.
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Display a pop-up when there's no affected property group to a JCL

A warning pop-up at the opening of a JCL by JCL Editor and before submitting it to affect a property group.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Make CICS PA Dashboards available in SPLUNK also available in Elastic and Kibana

We acquired the CICS PA Tool last year (2020) as part of our decommissioning of TMON for CICS for the reporting. We are currently using SAS/MXG to build our CICS reports from the TMON for CICS records. We recently saw a presentation with sending C...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Make COBOL Compiler and Runtime maintenance level independent

We compile our programs in one LPAR, we test them, and finally we distribute the objects to the Banks in other countries (Production LPAR). The software level of COBOL 5.1 complier and following versions have a strong dependency on the runtime lev...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

need JES spool to be opened with System z data editor instead of LPEX

Opening a large remote dataset or JES output can lead to out of memory error on the RDz client because LPEX editor will load the whole content into memory.System z Data Editor has a paging mechanism which could solve the problem but currently it c...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Add "user named code page" support in API toolkit

I submit this RFE on behalf of Mega Bank per customer request. The client's requirement is to add customized code page support in API toolkit.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered