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Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

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

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow JSON(ENCODING()) to accept CCSID

Recently implemented compiler option JSON(ENCODING(EBCDIC)) only supports the current codepage. We use code page 037 by default. However, the JSON we work with needs to be 1047 due to interactions with other tools. The square brackets are especial...
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Add an option to the Retrieve Data Set feature to restrict search on additional qualifiers

In remote systems perspective, when we retrieve datasets in MVS files, there no option to restrict the dataset filter criteria to a particular number of qualifiers or nodes. This would be similar to unchecking the " Include Additional Qualifiers" ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

We want to make a global requireSecure available for API requesters

For zosconnect_apiRequesters element, the apiRequester sub-element has both requireAuth and requireSecure defined. We understand that requireAuth is available at a higher level to cover all zosconnect_apiRequesters. We have a need for requireSecur...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to call unwrapped SOAP service

Document Literal unwrapped services are not supported by the EGL Client Interface wizard in RBD. See attached files for an example of a Document Literal unwrapped service.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Develop CICS Certification

Please develop a CICS Certification program. I found that Senior level Management feels that Certification shows that the holder has a detailed understanding of the product. It also shows that the holder is comitted to continuing their CICS educat...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When analysis uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determined ...
8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

duplicate a program in any existing projects

Useful to duplicate a program in an easy way, without having to take multiple steps to achieve the same When duplicating a program, in the Design Entity Duplication wizzard, the Design Project list only shows the current project and those undernea...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered