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Web requester AT-TLS aware

Outbound web requester (SOAP) EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE will use CICS SSL support if HTTPS is the protocol scheme in the URI. Shop standard is to have AT-TLS policy look for outbound HTTP requests to servers and create SSL session to server. In ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Implement a delay before querying a zCentric agent after the workstation became active

When a zCentric workstation goes from Offline to Active status, the controller immediately queries the agent to retrieve the status of the jobs. If the agent does not know the jobs requested by the controller, the latter sets them in UNKN error. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need ability to migrate to new DASD under GDPS in MGM environment

Need ability to migrate to new hardware while keeping existing MGM DR and availability positions intact.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

FM/IMS LIST=ACTIVE to show only active IMS-subsys like in FM/DB2

In FM/DB2 there is an option in FMN2POPT to list only the active DB2's when you get the popup to select you r db2 subsys. In FM/IMS this is not available. We always try to install on 1 system and roll out to all other systems. So we could realize ...
almost 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

OPCOPTS - Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES should be set default as YES since it always caused OPC Fetch Directive error if not set to YES

As this Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES current default set to NO is an very old design, when we use OPC Fetch Directive, the JCL will always throw error anyway. This mean REMJCLDIRECTIVES(YES) will be mandatory. However, this should also take in cons...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU6.2 to TCP/IP

Please enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU62 sessions to TCP/IP (for those cases where the following DTP Commands are used): EXEC CICS® ALLOCATE EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS EXEC CICS CONVERSE CONVID EXEC CICS CONVERSE SESSION EXEC CICS SEND SES...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

MOVE command in Remote Debug Console

Hello IBM, we need the functionality of the MOVE and SET commands for the Remote Debugger's Debug Console. The command is currently supported only in the 3270 Debugger.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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