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remove systematic access to SYS1.PARMLIB by the CICS translator

with CICS TS 5.5 - the translator DFHECP1$ read SYS1.PARMLIB even if the DFHAPIR member is in a "user.PARMLIB" it has read access to the SYS1.PARMLIB - This generates security errors because this PDS is not accessible for developers. This is not b...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 12 Future consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add DWC userid (in addition to RACF userid) to EQQPH72I message

Currently the EQQPH72I message, displayed in the mainframe server task which communicates with the zconnector to get to a DWC, contains only the RACFUSER value from the USERMAP table. There may be multiple DWC userids which have the same RACFUSER ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

VSCode extension for z/OS Connect

VSCode seems to be becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Preparing the main z/OS Connect features from iDZ Eclipse to VSCode enables usability in the future.
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Refactoring for PLi modules

Right now IDz has functionality to identify unused variable in cobol modules. we need similar future for PLi modules as well. We have 1000s of PLi modules. we need similar functionalities like cobol modules
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 1 Future consideration

Debugger clean-up job should stop all debugger message regions that are waiting for input

We are using Debug for Z/OS in our test regions. We have scheduled the clean-up job to run every night. This job executes the Program EQANIPSB. It has 2 steps - the first step stops all the debugger message regions and the next step deregisters al...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow for rebalance of CICS regions connected to Couriers after restart.

Once a CICS region is connected to a particular courier in the base component, it will continue to connect to the same courier across restarts of the base component. Please allow for the (optional?) redistribution of the connections, balanced acro...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
7 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

Certify ooRexx version 5.0 for use with TOS.

Version 4.2 has long standing reliability issues. Version 5.0 is newer and will offer better perfomance to TOS customers.
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration