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Improving z/OS Connect resilience

To wrap outbound API calls with Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead patterns provided by Liberty mpFaultTolerance-2.0 feature
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow Read-Only access to Named Counter Server pools

We are using IBM Named Counter Servers as the storage facility for our Slow Roll infrastructure on the mainframe. Only Alter and Control Access is offered for the Named Counter Servers. For our implementation, READ access is required. Access to th...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Project View Should Support Refresh

When importing a project via the Git Repositories view, the z/OS Project view does not always update. This is indicative of the view not receiving the UI hook when another view updates the filesystem. I've had to close and then reopen the view on ...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Permit named PUSH/POP statements

When the assembler reaches an END statement, and there remains unPOP'd PUSH USINGs, it issues ASMA138W . Well, in large complex assemblies, finding the unPOP'd PUSH or PUSHs can be rather a challenge. In my own coding, I have solved that by replac...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Fully support 32-bit EQUs (maybe even 64-bit EQUs as well)

The assembler's support of 32-bit EQUs is arcane, to say the least. Consider: EQU1 EQU X'80000000' EQU2 EQU X'80000000'+1 EQU3 EQU X'7FFFFFFF'+1 The EQU1 and EQU2 statements are fine.The EQU3 statement gets flagged with ASMA074E. I do understand t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

Additional SuperC returncode for changed data compare

Batch invocation of SuperC (ISRSUPC) currently gives two "normal" completion return codes, 0 for "No differences" and "1" for "Differences found". A third "normal" completion return code of 2 would be advantageous for those cases where there are n...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Not under consideration

IBM ADDI support on zLinux (RHEL)

we, in ANZ Banking group have purchased ADDI license last year. for various reasons including supportability and infrastructure consolidation, We would like ADDI components to be supported to run on zLinux (RHEL). It would be even better if it can...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Creation a DFHXQxxxI message to monitor the percentage of "lists in use" in a CF Structure.

Hello, We use Temporary Storage Queue in a shared environment.As we noticed messages monitoring the percentage of entries and elements in use, we didn't notice a DFHXQ...I message for monitoring the percentage of lists in use?This request refers t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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