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SUBAREA SNA Enhancement

OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks' CUA interface allows users to list VTAM applications and do a drill down analysis on each application to show; Pending sessions, Tasks using VTAM servicesNumber of APPLs, etc.
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Allow IMS High Performance FP Tool to extract all segments in the SDEP area

Normal processing of SDEP data is via the SCAN and DELETE utility. In the unfortunate event that the SCAN output is accidentally deleted after the DELETE is performed, there is currently no way to re-extract the data from the area unless the logic...
over 2 years ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Fast Path Advanced Tools 2 Delivered

SHA-2 SSL support for CICS

Our cryptographic policy is changing to support the NIST direction to require SHA-2 and RSA 2048-bit keys for SSL encryption. We are being asked to comply by the end of 2013. In the PMR above, I asked if CICS supports SHA-2 and they suggested I op...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Allow the hostname specified in Liberty's server.env file to map to "localhost"

When performing DR testing we use different DNS names for the LPARs hosing EKMF. As part of each test we have to change the hostname in server.env to the DR DNS name. To alleviate this need it would be nice if Liberty would allow the hostname to b...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Improve reporting within the UI to allow users to select various report criteria

We would like to have the ability to query keys and templates within EKMF Web using a variety of scenarios and have the ability to generate/export a report. THe report could be in CSV or HTML format. The query can probably be achieved using dynami...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Eliminate resource constraints for z/TPF WebSphere MQ

With the increased usage of z/TPF MQ the core storage used to hold messages in z/TPF should use storage above the 2G bar. Currently the storage used is SWBs which is below the 2G bar. In addition to moving the core storage above the bar, z/TPF MQ ...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

When packaging PTFs for an existing EKMF-Web instance, ensure the install does not reset the permission bits on EKMF directories (the install copied in a complete replacement of directories with default settings)

When we upgraded to v2.1.0.3, the permissions set on the EKMF directories were reset back to the default settings. At this point only the owner ad READ access to the directories and we had to manually set permissions back to what we were using pri...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 4 Delivered

z/OS Connect JSON Parser needs to handle large numbers and not round numeric values

When processing a large number (One that is too large to be represented by a signed 64-bit binary value) the IBM JSON parser raises an error - because it regards the value as 'not numeric'. Also, if a number has decimal positions and has more than...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Must be able to identify package creator throughout entire package life-cycle

We need the ability to track the id of the person who initially created a package throughout its lifetime, at all points along a migration path, and to have that information available via all the various CM interfaces.
over 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer: Workloads CICS routing

View all routing regions and see which workloads they are routing for.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered