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MFA support for Database Access in IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development

Hi, We have to enable MFA for ODBM access to meet the audit requirements at our company. Since it is the way forward for all the clients, it is a good idea to add MFA support ASAP. Thanks !!
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

Allow Filtering on CICS system Policies

Need "Filtering" option on system Policies - similar to CICS Events Need a means of limiting a system Policy to specific transactions.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Description on how to implement DBB application server as a high-availability cluster

Description for how to implement DBB application server as a high-availability cluster. Currently, we have a single Linux server running the DBB application server to evaluate the product. To go into production, we must be able to host the DBB app...
almost 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

Improved Debugging for IMS Message Processing Programs

Although we publish that we can debug IMS/MPPs in an IMS Message Processing Region, we really do not have a viable solution to debug programs in an IMS MPP environment. If a customer has Xpediter/IMS, and wants to use Debug Tool to replace this fu...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 7 Delivered

CICS PA Web solution

-- We open this RFE as requested by IBM in our previous PA discussion. Details were discussed in the meeting. We would like to see if IBM has any plans to provide web based analytics to CICSPA, where the PA reports in MF can be sent to a web serve...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS Ability to see RACF/ACF2 Security Violations

New structures JVM Server, Liberty Angel, zOSMF, Java, and zOS Connect have been introduced to expand CICS functionality. We need the ability to be able to see the traditional RACF/ACF2 security violations in order to setup and support these new s...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to process zOS Connect SMF Data

Enable CICS Performance Analyzer to process the SMF data produced by zOS Connect.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Inline comment

For development and testing would it be practically if the Compiler would Support line comment not just block comment.For example // like in C or Java. But at the end the Syntax doesnt matter.An continue line Support for line comment would also be...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Preferred/failover config for IPIC

Provide a mechanism for having a list of preferred IPIC connections while still having an HA failover list.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add API Requester support for all product dashboards and searches.

There is a gap in the zLDA (5.1) product. API Provider (SMF 123 records) information is visible on product dashboards and searches, but API Requester (same SMF123 records different subtype) information is not. Our company is using these API Reques...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Delivered