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Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Ignore case remain inactive with 'Compare with' for programs that have different sequence number AND case on the same line

When we compare programs, the button 'Ignore Case' in the toolbar has no effect in Compare editor if there are both different sequence number AND different case existing in a same line.In this case, the line displays a difference that should be el...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Delivered

FA IDz client to access saved report from history file

Hello, The FA ISPF interface allows a user to select/view the saved report from the history file. However, the IDz plugin does not have the ability to read/access/present this data and must drive a reanalysis of the fault in order to produce a rep...
almost 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

IDz v16.03 make the "Launch Shell" context menu available for Filters in Remote Systems View and on remote directories in the z/OS Projects view

1) Currently in the Remote Systems view the "Launch Shell" context menu only appears on directories listed under a defined filter. Please make the "Launch Shell" context available on the Filter as well. 2) Currently in the z/OS Project View the "L...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

For new data/time input data fields we would like the data to be persistent

Now that PTF's UI79367/8/9 are applied -PH42125: CICS CONFIGURATION MANAGER ENHANCED TO COLLECT & PASS ADDITIONALINFORMATION FOR PROCESSING BY CHANGE PACKAGE EXIT PROGRAM - we would like the data saved and presented back to the CM panels. The ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

ANALYTIC Report Set to include an ALERT that suppresses entries with zero activity

The supplied ANALYTIC ReportSet for Splunk includes all definitions for 17 different statistics records, generating over a million splunk records each day. Many of the records are for unused entries that we would like suppressed. Can you supply a ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Conditional reorg check for new KEYLABEL in RACF

We are encrypting our IMS Databases. We store the encryption KEYLABEL in RACF on the Dataset Profile. Over time, we may change the KEYLABEL, to switch to quantum safe algorithms for example, and would like the conditional reorg to detect this chan...
about 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 5 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

GDPS and LCP reporting. More functions needed

It would be great if we could use sort on the VPCPLCS3 panel in GDPS. Maybe in combination with the filter command. Ie a command like this:filter used(80,gt) sorted descending
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

Please add views for the FEPI Operations Tables

Hello, The WUI provides views for the FEPI Operations tables: FEPIPOOL, FEPIPROP, FEPICONN, FEPINODE, and FEPITRGT. Our shop uses FEPI and we want to see these views represented in the CICS Explorer for ease of administration.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered