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Support for Jakarta package and JCA 2.x

Microprofile is aligned with JakartaEE (ex J2EE) standard, javax package has been removed in favour of jakarta ones. Cics Transaction Gateway (and also IMS Connect) still continue to use the old JCA 1.7 and javax.* packages, forcing projects that ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Show error message if there is a JCL-Error in the JCL I want to use to debug

Hello, when I start the debugger (in IDz) using "debug configuration" and in the selected JCL is a JCL-Error, it looks for some seconds like debug is starting. Then it vanishes without any message. I suggest, that in case of a JCL-Error an error-M...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Need some help from IMS to modify the command processor to scan actual existing destinations in IMS

IMS provided some support years ago to clear a flag which indicates output present ( and prevents TPIPE deletion ) when a DISPLAY TPIPE QCNT command is issued in IMS, and QCF was enhanced to issue the command.Unfortunately, this would never work, ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Delivered

Enable Export of RSE filters also when Filter Pools are active.

The export function for filters in the Remote Systems Explorer should export ALL filters, no matter on which connection or in which filter pool they are.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Improve the image extraction experience for Z Virtual Dev and Test

Current process of creating custom images are very complex. Need lot of assistance from a system programmer and storage administrator to discover and identify the volumes needed during image creation . Today there is nothing in the ZVDT solution t...
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Link File Manager Formatted Mode view with Single Mode Editor view

We appreciate the 'Locate column' option when viewing/editing files with File Manager in tabular/formatted mode. It comes in very handy when trying to locate fields in large copybooks. The Single Mode Editor is a nice feature, offering alternate v...
about 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

OMON Resource Limiting for Transaction CPU Time for less than 1 Second

Looking to see if a change can be made to allow Omegamon to do CICS Transaction Limiting (KILL LIMIT) for under 1 Second CPU Time. Seems that one second is the lowest value that can be set.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect: Enable back-end service selection based on a header value (intelligent routing)

z/OS Connect: Enable back-end service selection based on a header value (intelligent routing) In z/OS Connect EE, provide service selection based on a HTTP request header content. 1. Define a HTTP request header as a criteria for routing 2. Select...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Autoformat rules for the IDz COBOL editor handling of spaces brackets needs to be configurable.

The basic autoformat rules should cover the requirements for most of the IDz COBOL users. To prevent not be dictated by IDz. The rule templates should be configurable by each individual user as well as being enforced by an IDz admin. See for examp...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Provide more granularity in SSL/TLS Protocols

Provide an Max TLS Version SITPARM in addition to Min TLS Version so that installations of CICS can have granularity to configure connectivity with partners that are not tolerant of certain TLS versions.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered