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For the configuration of the CL / Supersession, it is very helpful in various places to be able to use the MVS symbols. Also for programming logon routines and clists
over 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

View SYSPARM data across multiple CICS regions simultaneously

Allow CICS region SYSPARM data to be displayed and filtered, across multiple CICS regions, just as is available in the CPSM WUI.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Not under consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Re-drive prompts for MFA (and UID/PW) to handle multiple connections from different sysplexes and RACF setups

When IDz has multiple RSE connections, multiple DB2 for z/OS connections, multiple sysplexes, and multiple RACF setups, it’s hard to determine which prompts and logins go with which connection in the current connection configuration in IDz. For DB...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Planned for future release

Add affected service and IMS system to IMS Service Provider error messages in z/OS Connect

As of today when an IMS transaction service in z/OS Connect runs into a problem because the invoked transaction abends, doesn't respond in time or is stopped respectively the transaction cannot be invoked because of unsufficient authorization, z/O...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to route all messages to a central storage

In larger CICS installation with WOR, TOR, FOR, AOR etc. it is sometimes difficult to find all information related to a problem or event. If the messages are written to SYSOUT, they can be searched, but need to be archived in an output management ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

The ASM shortage recovery must not depend on sysplex automation

In certain cases, the sysplex automation is turned off when some systems in a physical sysplex (not only SAplex) can't answer to commands sent at the SA initialization. It is visible when the common global variable AOF.0ROUTEFAILED si set to 'Y'. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Refresh application programs in a MPR with persistent JVM

IMS with MPP with persistent JVM. CANCEL_PGM=NO and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. The Language Environment enclave remains active during all the MPR lifetime in order to keep t...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

IDz to support BMS Map Subfields.

Need IDz to be able to support the ability to have subfields like in SDF. We have many maps today that use the subfields within SDF.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

SSH JAM recycle should defer shutdown to allow work/connections in progress to complete

When SSH JAM is recycled, any SFTP connections in progress are lost. Update the SSH JAM to allow connection in progress to complete.
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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