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AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Dual Control for key management actions (n/Auth)

A method for dual control is needed in EKMF Web, such that any action (request), for which dual control is required, requires two (or more) users to confirm the request before EKMF Web performs the action. These actions can be (but not limited to)...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

enable wildcards in policy condition values

We would like the ability to use wildcard characters within a policy condition for example: <conditions> <header name="imstran" value="TRAN%A" /> </conditions> Where % is a single character wild card. This would be beneficial for...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
12 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

The use of the symbols is not possible. Please set up.

For the configuration of the CL / Supersession, it is very helpful in various places to be able to use the MVS symbols. Also for programming logon routines and clists
over 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

View SYSPARM data across multiple CICS regions simultaneously

Allow CICS region SYSPARM data to be displayed and filtered, across multiple CICS regions, just as is available in the CPSM WUI.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Not under consideration

In addition to open idea ZWS-I-230 besides removing the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME, it would be better to remove parameters BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME and just use SETSSI commands

We are continuing to have a lot of serious issues resulting from the use of the BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME parameters to make changes to the subsystems for zWS controllers and trackers, for example recent HIPER APARs PH59155 and PH59387. The BUILDSSX a...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to route all messages to a central storage

In larger CICS installation with WOR, TOR, FOR, AOR etc. it is sometimes difficult to find all information related to a problem or event. If the messages are written to SYSOUT, they can be searched, but need to be archived in an output management ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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