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ZOS Connect GraphQL Support

I have just made test on zos connect and I have a hugh structure in PL/1. Of course I can map everything to extra REST Services, but it would be great to just take the hole PL/1 structure and provide a graphQL API. Would be much less work.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

TWS product development to support zcentric agents in a Natted environment

Need to be ableto support Zcentric agents in a Natt'd enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

LPEX editor should hilight debug lines depending on setting

Similar to the COBOL editor, LPEX should highlight debug lines (lines with 'D' in column 7) depending on the existence of the 'With Debugging Mode' phrase of Source Computer command.COBOL editor highlights these as active code or as comment lines,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with Open ID Connect in HACP EE

HACP EE is a web application which offers a zero foot print host accessFor customers who want to access HACP EE using single sign on should be able to do so using OIDC or Open Id Connect. It is a modern standard for exchanging authenticated end us...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time Should be in XE and 3270
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Support for DB2Entries in CICS Bundles

We are able to create Transactions in our cics bundle but because we always create a db2entry together with the transcation we can't really use cics bundles to define our application because we can't create db2entries in the cics bundle
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration