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HOD FTP need the ability to connect to FTP/S server with Implicit TLS (No AUTH TLS command)

Currently the HOD FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be non...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Keeping the HEX ON characters continuously on in LPEX Editor

A function that would keep the HEX ON characters continuously in the LPEX Editor in IDz. At the moment if the user wants to display HEX characters ON, this is possible, but if he moves to another row the HEX characters disappear and he has to acti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Modernize Exception Handling in EXEC CICS API

While learning CICS programming with Cobol, programmers with background in Java or other newer programming languages find fault with the current exception handling in CICS. Although CICS offers a broad range of techniques to cope with exceptions i...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Override sessions with Initial Status = F for CLS/DEST Pass Sessions

Users take advantage of the Initial status parameter for sessions they wish to have started automatically by specifying F. When a user does this with a session designated as Multi, they are able to get back to the Supersession menu by hitting ATT...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement suggestion for Mass Update functionality

When performing a Mass update to OPR - FEEDBACK LIMIT, can there be a filter criteria that allows to specify a DURATION time? In our installation we use duration times to determine what we want our Feedback limits to be. So for example, all jobs t...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

The explorer tool to display resource attribute as per defination.

The explorer tool should display resource attribute as per defination for consistency. e.g. avoid -1 to represent NO and so on.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Unreferenced Variables

When variables are defined in a program (and not in a copybook), as in :01 Used. 05 unused Pic x. 05 usedP1 pic x. The variable unused is not referenced but usedP1 is. We can see if they are not referenced in the program by looking Show In -> D...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Panel EQQAMTMP "not started action" cannot be used with "EVERY" repeating jobs

Jobs that are scheduled using the EVERY repeat Run-Cycle Option do not have an operation start/end time in the database entry. When the schedule is interrupted by some event and none of the jobs run for several cycles, it would be useful to have I...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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