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Cross Site Request Forgery

HATS can be used to create web based applications for legacy mainframe systems. However, applications built using HATS are susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery attack.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 5 Delivered

Allow named Constants as Host Variables in imbedded SQL-Statements

Named constants should be allowed as "host constants/variables" in SQL statements - if they are to be used "read only".
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Persist Search edit and re-run w/o making it a favorite.

When performing a Remote z/OS File Search one has to enter selection criteria into the 'Search string' (and possibly make other setting changes) before hitting <Enter> to start the search. The Remote z/OS Search view is opened upon the compl...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Expand REXXIMS MAPDEF Packed Decimal function

Expand the Packed Decimal length that MAPDEF can handle from 6 to 10 bytes.
almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

Add a "real" keepalive functionality for HOD Printer Sessions

Using HOD 14.0.5 (and also on 12.0.6) cached client, there is a problem that printer sessions seem to disconnect silently after about 5 minutes, probably because of some networking component cutting the idle connection. The "keepalive connection" ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

CICS retry to connect TCPIP during startup automatically or as configured

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This results in those resources unable to start.CICS should be able to handle this by restarting the c...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Performance-critical Statements (with extra generated Code by Compiler) should be flagged

When compiling a program with OPTIMIZE, the compiler should flag performance-critical statements and expressions.The Compiler-Program "knows" when to insert extra code for number converting,so it could give a hint to the Programmer, such as an "In...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Delivered

DBB - add documentation on how to remote debug java code in eclipse/IDZ

We need a way to remote debug Groovy applications so we can more quickly develop a GIT pipeline. Working with Dennis Behm he pointed out some documentation he had. Please publish this document so the community can benefit from this feature.
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

Add functionality to Customize Columns on CICS Resource View/Package View Panels for display

Adding the functionality to customize searchable columns on the CICS CM Panels will help users expand their search based on additional resource definition fields (Example: Description field). This will save time in filtering of resource definition...
9 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 XML fragement parsing for COBOL 4.2

There have been changes made to the XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 for XML fragment parsing which is exploited by COBOL v5.1. We would like these changes to the compiler leveraging the XML System Services changes for COBOL 4.2 to take advantage o...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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