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Enhance Python API zsystem.read_console to use OPERLOG

The current capability of the Python API only captures the syslog of the system that the API executes on. If a user wanted to automate some function / task that required capturing messages from the console in a sysplex environment that contains mu...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add DWC userid (in addition to RACF userid) to EQQPH72I message

Currently the EQQPH72I message, displayed in the mainframe server task which communicates with the zconnector to get to a DWC, contains only the RACFUSER value from the USERMAP table. There may be multiple DWC userids which have the same RACFUSER ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Add file access logging to SFTP server

Currently only user login activity is captured in the log under /tpfjam/ibmutil. Enhance this logging to also include file access activity at a minimum (who's doing what, when and where) as well as FTP commands if possible. Potentially include dif...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.
7 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Add the capability of creating custom HTTP headers for API Requesters

Our web-proxy gateways and API registrars require additional custom headers. Since these headers aren’t required by our API Providers, they usually aren’t in the OAS3 doc. Examples of what we use are: ConsumerId, ContextId, RequestId, and x- Gatew...
10 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
10 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RFE to make RTIMOUT attribute in PROFILE definition DYNAMIC

Change the RTIMOUT attribute within the PROFILE definition to be dynamic, so CICS Administrators can quickly update it to react to changing conditions in the network.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Users want to know when they need to rebind their IBM File Manager for z/OS packages

[Current Product & Version]-IBM File Manager for z/OS V15 -z/OS V2.5-Db2 12 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is planning to upgrade Db2 for z/OS and IBM File Manager for z/OS. PLAN(yyyy/...
7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession highlight active sessions main menu KLSVSEL1

Hello, It would really productive for our users to show a color difference between session statuses (Active/current and not active) in the main menu KLSVSEL1. There is not a parameter to configure that and we don't have enough skills with SSPL to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

COBOL: Catch use of wrong index

Case: TS006008227Summary: The COBOL compiler should warn when the wrong index is used Details: In COBOL the data division INDEXED BY phrase is used to associate an index with a table. “A table without an INDEXED BY phrase can be referred to throug...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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