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Configuration file for P2 installations

I propose the inclusion of a configuration file for P2 installations which allows, for example: adding a z/OS connection by default which would allow me to distribute the tool to developers as an installation by Installation Manager allows.
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Needs more information

source control enablement

Enable source control integration for applinx applications and/or repository. The ability to only export and import the entire repository and the lack of exporting only differences without manually exporting (specific entities) from the Designer l...
3 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
29 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Provide the ability to switch users from within a Remote Systems Explorer session

We currently have 2 levels of authorization for several of our software products...one for use on a day to day basis by users and another that is used for more critical/protected functionality like deployments and system configurations. To accompl...
6 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
3 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
about 1 month ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Provide parameter like KM2_TIMEOUT (similar to KOB_TIMEOUT) to control idle session timeout for MVS Classic

Helps comply with site's audit requirement to cancel inactive sessions within x minutes.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Under review

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
29 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Under review

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