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z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements for identified the caller

Our client has asked to trace the activity of these managers by USER ID / IP ADDRESS / Services called.In SMF 123, it lack IP Address. It would be interesting to add the IP address of the caller in the record smf 123.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Provide a 64 bits version of xsdosrg XML Schema compiler

Hi, To use an XML Schema in a program (COBOL) on the z/OS platform, it must be transformed into an OSR (Optimized Shema Representation) file. This is done using the xsdosrg utility. This utility requires a 31-bit Java runtime, which is restricti...
6 months ago in XML for z/OS 1 Delivered

IBM Explorer/RSE Support for Extended GDG (GDGE)

Requesting new feature to allow IBM Explorer for z/OS and RSE for z/OS to support Extended Generation Data Groups (GDGE). IBM Explorer for z/OS can be used to define host file GDGs and the current documented limit is 255. Extended GDGs now support...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

changed default for APPCMAX in DFSDCxxx

The default APPCMAX=(5000,1000000) in DFSDCxxx is too high. The value 64_bit_max should be much smaller, may be 0.With the current default IMS installations can end up with an IMS SBND (sick but not dead) situation. IMS storage is protected wherea...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

ASM property group needed for local z/OS Projects

We are looking into introducing a “modern” toolchain including IDz – git – IBM DBB... and are now working with a POC.If the POC is successful it could in the future replace our existing “toolchain” that completely resides on z/OS.When we work with...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Enable CICS PA to read input directly from a Logstream

We would like CICS/PA to use the logger logstream as input to a CICS performance report, instead of the SMF data.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

EAV Support for TEMS Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server

In OMEGAMON TEMS, PDS files are not supported with EAV devices.
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Delivered

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered