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Allow Multi APIs to use the same Base Path

Our API Developers want to us the same Base path for multiple APIs. when they attempt this - deploy fails with: Description Resource Path Location TypeAn error was received for z/OS Connect EE connection "..... 409 Conflict, BAQR7005E: The base pa...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START

Need PROTECT option on START CHANNEL. Currently the only options available are TERMID, USERID and SYSID.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

zCEE Liberty should allow server.env file config

Tried to follow Liberty "best practices" for our zCEE implementation, to separate task ID from configuration file owning ID as a Security consideration. This is allowed through Liberty but not Liberty within zCEE. Other parms are working in the se...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE service should allow a variable or inherit a connection profile

When deploying a service from test to prod, we should not have to change anything inside of the service. We have to edit and change the connection profile to point to different connection profile. Can this be a variable, or inherit from some other...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Add a site-wide option to not allow users to save changes to a non-zero PDSE generation (-1, -2, etc.). Also be able to restrict the SAVE NOGEN option. We need to secure these options and not allow users to change the options. Ideally these option...
about 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Add http OPTIONS support for resources

CICS currently supports the http OPTIONS method but only for the server itself where the path is an asterisk. Requesting http OPTIONS method support for resources.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Monetary Values and DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS

When using the JSON number decimal format the default setting is to 3 decimal places and we need the ability to set the floating point precision and to be able to specify DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS in the build toolkit for outbound APIs.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Send DS8K health status info to the TPF console

To help improve the operator’s awareness of conditions within the DS8K DASD control unit on production systems, we would like to take the health information that the DS8K is already collecting and send it to the TPF console.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Extend the JZOS ZFile class to include "unlocked" versions of read and locate for VSAM files

We've been prototyping and performance testing Java's ability to access VSAM record-oriented or Key Sequenced Data Sets (KSDS) using the ZFile class and now, our own home-grown functions based on the XL C/C++Run-Time Library – in particular, the l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Delivered

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