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Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

make program EYU9XSTR Threadsafe,

We are trying to reduce Threadsafe TCB swapping; we are QR TCB constrained. In trace I notice that EYU9XSTR causes a TCB SWAP L8 to QR; see trace below, I notice an old RFE from Circa '18 to have this done; was not considered at that time; I'd lik...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Boolean support and bit manipulation

Support for Standard COBOL "Boolean support and bit manipulation".This includes (but is not limited to those I might have overlooked):- Boolean data PICTURE clause, i.e.: USAGE DISPLAY PICTURE 1.- USAGE BIT, i.e.: USAGE BIT PICTURE 1(8).- GROUP-US...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Support for User defined function in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to work DB2 User defined functions trough IDz UI. It would be an improvement to have the ability to work with and debug those for the de...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

Suspend file and Configuration refresh aborted

With SA 4.1 and the use of a suspend file, a configuration refresh may be aborted or rejected because errors related to the suspend file. The error messages may be issued in the syslog of a remote system and the issuer of the command is not inform...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release