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Made SS using passphrase features with same comportment than password.

Our customer want to implement passphrase into thier Mainframe. SuperSession is the prime software where the end user are login in.We have tried to implement the new passphrase feature in the last summer in z/OS and into SuperSession. Unfortunatel...
about 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

LOGON sequence for CICS application

Looking at IBM provided CL/Supersession configuration samples I noticed that there is no LOGON sequence sample provided for CICS application. Being a system programmer I depend on these samples. To create one myself I would need to have in-depth k...
about 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

More meaningful resource attribute names

The resource attribute names in the CICS Explorer can have very cryptic meanings. When you are looking to add an attribute to the view, it is difficult to know which one to select due to the way it was named. I know the dynamic help can be used to...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM CMAS and WUI should invoke STAT transaction for statistics

Need ability to both automatically configure CICS statistics collection in a CMAS/WUI server as well as adhoc statistics collection. Add an action to the CMAS resource table for adhoc, API or CMCI requests from Explorer to have the CMAS or WUI run...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

We request that File Manager be enhanced to use some form of auxiliary temporary storage (e.g., work files) to hold change bu

We request that File Manager be enhanced to use some form of auxiliary temporary storage (e.g., work files) to hold change buffers when there is insufficient storage in the address space to complete CHANGE command processing.
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IGYCB7300-W was safely removed by the optimizer

When the compiler detects a paragraph that never can be executed, COBOL V4 produced the message : " IGYOP3091-W Code from "procedure name OMV6-8" to "STRING (line 343.01)" can never be executed and was therefore discarded. " This message was given...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

CMDPROT for calls to External Resource Managers such as MQ and DB2.

Even with Storage Protection active in CICS, it is possible for a USERKEY application program to cause CICSKEY storage to be overlayed. This can happen if the USERKEY program specifies the address of CICSKEY storage as one of the output parameters...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

BUILD CLIENT LOG SHOULD HAVE DATE STAMP THAT INCLUDES SECONDS

I was asked to calculate how long a specific source code module took to build (compile) in build client and this information is a timestamp in whole minutes.I want to be able to list out:module name and number of seconds to compile
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10

Need to support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Compiling masks of numeric-edited data-item at runtime

In a system that has to manage several currencies, it might be interesting for performance reasons to be able to "compile" at runtime the masks of the numeric-edited data-items. Currently, if we want to manage several formatted numeric-edited fiel...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

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