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Allow for JSON based Identity Propagation

Update CICS TG RAR to support container-based authentication from OpenLiberty that utilized JWT/Bearer token support. If a client presents JWT and this JWT is validated by the OpenLiberty runtime via feature OIDC with JWT: OpenID Connect Client 1....
2 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

Restricting access to specific bot commands and command options for specific users and/or globally.

Introduce "read-only" access mode limited to getting system status. Blocking any possibility to perform any task (like stopping resources) which could change system state.
2 days ago in IBM Z ChatOps 1 Under review

More information needed in zAIOps prebuilt skills README.md in wxa4z-skillpak.zip

The current zAIOps README.md in wxa4z-skillpak.zip just one line "# aiOpsIntegration". If zAIOps README.md can provide more detailed introduction about the prebuilt skills for AIOps? The z/OS MF prebuilt skills README.md has more and better introd...
2 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Customers would like to be able to 'extract' metric listing from within IntelliMagic

The search has good capability to cross reference and find reports and fields (metrics) that IntelliMagic reports on, but since there are so many variables available in the database and tables, customers would like to see all of them in one place....
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
3 days ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Request FastPath solution pack to support ZIIP processor

Customers use FP solution pack to run routine jobs like 'Pointer Checker report' , usually consume a lot of IO and CPU time if there are many DBs. If workload can offload to ZIIP processor, it should relief CPU constrain and shorten job execution ...
3 days ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...

Show a warning on the chart when all data is not available to span the selection that the user specified.

It is a little confusing if a customer/user specifies a range that is not available in the data base (for retention reasons for example). A warning would inform them that they are not looking at all the data that they requested.
4 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
3 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Reporting spool(PUT) statements at compile time to avoid unnecessary performance issues on runtime

Spool statements using on test phase can be forgotten during production transition. This will cause unnecessary performance degredation. So, PUT statement usage can be reported during compile time. Compiler message can be displayed different messa...
8 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted