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SNI Support for outbound connections in CICS

Some of our clients setup a server for example at Amazon (AWS).CICS can not connect to the server through HTTPS due to SNI enabled. Unfortunately there are No easy way for CICS sysprog to understand the underlying protocoll used.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

zUnit default creates an unnecessary TestCase

When you generate a Test Case there is always a TEST1 tase case created. This may seem logical but in cases where a recording will be made from CICS or IMS or batch, the default test case is a hindrance as the import will always create it's own te...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

64-bit RBD debugger and Remote VSAM; Support for Z/VSE SAM ESDS files in VSEDDM and VSE connector

This RFE contains three items. 1) Z/VSE SAM ESDS support to RBD's remote VSAM access (via VSEDDM and VCS)3) Possibility to select which VSE Connector's port VSEDDM is using2) VSEDDM support for 64-bit RBD
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

IMS Online Reorg - OSAM PS to OSAM LDS

Allow converting from OSAM Physical Sequential to OSAM Linear Dataset via Online Reorg Shadow Copy (SHADOW(E)) technique. This is needed for IMS OSAM Encryption.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Delivered

SMU - Add Set START Type function

It must be possible to set the START Type via SMU
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

CICS could gather diagnostics information regarding TCPIP stack failures.

When TCPIP Stack has left the TCPIP SYSPLEX GROUP by consequence of a failure on the stack itself and do not prevent if of working for completely. On this case, CICS TCPIPServices, used for receiving IBM INTEGRATION BUS (or Message Broker) calls ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Add MFA Support for Debug Profile Editor in Eclipse IDE

Currently some ADFz products (such as File Manager and Fault Analyzer) work perfectly with IDz Eclipse IDE while using MFA and PassTickets, while others, such as the Debug Profile Editor do not. Additionally, if you try to use the Debug Profile Ed...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Delivered

Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements

We have been using BAS (Business Application Services) frequently for resource definitions in our environments. Currently we use WUI for BAS Administration views and BATCHREP (Batched repository update requests). It would be nice to enhance Z/OS e...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered