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CMCI under JVMSERVER doesn't work with hardware certificates

It would be interesting if there was some form (a feature, a parameter of EYUCMCIJ.profile, ...) that would allow to choose the type of keyring that the WLP under which the CMCI runs will use, e.g. JCERACFKS (defautl), JCECARACFKS, JCEHYBRIDRACFKS.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

SA Operations REST server & z/OSMF coexistence

We want to run the SA Operations REST server on the same WLP instance as the z/OSMF but this is not possible since one requires the feature servlet-4.0 and the other the servlet-3.1, both incompatible and therefore not being able to coexist in the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Delivered

Enhance Fault Analyzer analysis of CICS SVC dumps to include all types of registers in Kernel Error Data

CICS Kernel Error Data contains the Vector Registers at the time of the error. IPCS VERBX DFHPD### 'KE' provides all the following General Purpose RegistersAccess Registers Floating Point Registers Vector Registers However Fault Analyzer ISP...
over 1 year ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add zAPM tracking for z/Os Connect EE OAS3 version

zAPM tracking is supported in z/OS Connect EE OAS2, but not the OAS3 version which means we will lose the ability to track zCEE flows into CICS if we use APIs developed and deployed for the new version. This has also been raised at the zCEE design...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Compatibility with Google Cloud

It would be really usefull to have dedicated option to define Google Cloud server and use Cloud Storage XML API to manipulate data in Google Cloud Storage buckets.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 3 Delivered

GDPS GUI automatically update GEODEF data set on both GDPS Control systems

GDPS GUI automatically updates GEODEF data set on both GDPS controlling systems whenever updates are made to the members.
over 4 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

IZPCA: New subtype record definition for SMF 119

Hello,related to TCP/IP for z/OS Component on IZPCA, we ask you the possibility to define new record for SMF 119 for following subtype:SMF 119_41 SMC-R link group statistics recordSMF 119_42 SMC-R link state start recordSMF 119_43 SMC-R link state...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Delivered

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

GDPS z/OS Proxy shutdown

Using GPDS V4.1 and V4.2 Metro with z/OS Proxy systems.Today, when shutting down multiple systems or a site thru a script, the systems are shut down in the following order 1 - stop main sysplex - parallel 2 - stop xDR managed systems - parallel 3 ...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 16 Delivered

iDz 'Real-Time Syntax Checking' has only COBOL v.5.1 option available

In iDz under the Preferences -> COBOL -> Features -> Real-Time Syntax Checking, under the 'Validate against compiler versions' it seems that Enterprise COBOL V5.1 is default and nothing else is selectable.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered