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Certify the current tos release with windows server 2022.

Our servers are being loaded with windows server 2022. We need to know that TOS has run in the tpf lab on windows 2022 successfully.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Sending custom OAuth 2.0 claims in Access Token Request from CICS

Right now we are able to call OAuth 2.0 secured APIs from a z/OS Connect requester in CICS, using the following guidelines: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/securing/requester_oauth2.html We can add client_id, client_secret...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Mask text in Operations Manager Log

We use Operations Manager to monitor our system and log activity. Some data that is logged could be sensitive (for example a password). Operations Manager allows you to suppress from VIEWCON but not from the log
almost 3 years ago in Operations Manager for z/VM 2 Delivered

Allow python code to utilize zIIP processors

As we modernize our mainframe patching infrastructure and use python to implement, we do not want to introduce more CPU consumption in the process of trying to enhance our environment for the future. Allowing python to execute on zIIP would be an ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Delivered

support JSONOMIT for structures

Using the attribute JSONOMIT does not work on structures, only on variables. Therefore it is possible that there will be created null-objects if all variables of a structure are empty. To avoid empty objects (null-Objects --> :{}) and related P...
almost 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Netv REST API support for RACF cert

NETVIEW RESTFul API does not support RACF based Digitial ceritficates
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 2 Delivered

Request for Java Hold data delivery method to align with current z/OS methodology.

Request to provide holddata that IBM z customers are accustomed to using without having to use a seperate methodology to access the required information.
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Feature Request - JSON PARSE - [" was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected

It is possible in the JSON standard for a top-level JSON to have an array, e.g. [{..}, {..}]. However, this cannot be read with the current JSON parse, instead you have to build an object around it with string processing so that you can parse it. ...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered