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ZOS Connect EE : No CPU in SMF reccords

There no CPU consumption in SMF records , 120-11 or 123-1. This mandatory for us to get this value in statistic to be able to monitor easily the api requests.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Future consideration

Alternative response message structures in z/OS Connect

Response messages from transactions have not always the same structure. It is common to use a field telling the invocating application which structure to use for the variable part of the message. Currently it is not possible to handle such kinds o...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

HA setup for zAPM in Kubernetes/OSE environment

The current zAPM Implementation is not designed for HA (Active-Passive) setup. The current setup when installed will immediately start querying the configured AppDynamics controllers and is not suitable for passive setup. A HA setup will help with...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

RACF granulation of CICS tran CEKL SET PURGE, FORCEPURGE and KILL commands

We want to allow the app devs to purge or forcepurge misbehaving transactions but not to kill them, for example. CEKL/CEMT SET KILL is hazardous to address space integrity in ways purge or forcepurge are not. We don't want app devs to be able to...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

DBRC Extracts

Useful for querying recovery related information
6 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

change default redirect to logoff.aspx

add the capability to change the default redirection to logoff.aspx from logoffprompt.htm. Examples: sending a postmessage to host from an iframe or redirection to another page.
6 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

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