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Explorer SSL click box option for CTG Explorer Connection - utilizing AT-TLS into CTG

As CICS Explorer implements, Provide SSL Click box for the Stats API CTG connection, in Explorer. The Company site uses At-TLS on z/OS; the Company is looking at requiring all connections to use SSL. Explorer SSL connection to the CTG would be tra...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

DBCS support for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

IZDS V1.9 provides Japanese panel and report samples. Please add the same support for IZPCA V3.1.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

COBOL Comparewith does not distinguish case differences in keywords and strings.

It would be advantageous if the COBOL Diff (compare with - each other) would distinguish case differences in places where they don't make a difference vs where they do make a difference.Example: * "MOVE" vs "move" does not make a difference at run...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Please add SMF type 98 support

SMF type 98 - High frequency records will provide details that help to determine root cause of short term performance issues. Our business demands consistent fast responses and delays of a few seconds can cause significant impact to the business. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE timeout

The WEB RECEIVE timeout value is the RTIMOUT on the profile. We need to be able to dynamically, to controle the timeout value. This could be solved if the WEB RECEIVE was enhanced to include a option 'TIMEOUT' to controle the timeout time. The TIM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Change IWS Reporting of User Abends as Hex Values to true User Abend Decimal Values

User abends are often bigger than 3 numbers and error codes in IWS are 4 digits. The first digit for a User error is "U" to show it's not a condition code, but now there are only 3 digits for a 4 digit code. So, IWS turns the decimal number to a h...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.

all developers using IDZ in a multiple sysplex / lpar environment.
7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning to integrate Quota restrictions

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning so we can integrate with our license Quota restrictions mechanism.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

To implement the REFRESH RACF command via PIF/OCL o WAPL function.

To activate RACF sub resources, only option 9.6 in TWS is available. There are chances to use 9.5 mistakenly. To avoid this, if there is an option in WAPL or PIF, it would be more usefull. Raised case for this, i was suggested to refresh RACF reso...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 3 Future consideration

Possibility to parameter specific TimeOut by API

Now, ZCEE provides a asyncRequestTimeout parameter which allows to limit the request time for all the API in the server. However, it would be useful to be able to manage exception on an API basis.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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