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Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
4 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Using specific CICS Channel Name

In the z/OS Connect OpenAPI3 Designer, "JSONCHANNEL" is always used as a CICS channel name and there is currently no way to change CICS channel name when we invoke CICS Channel program via z/OS Connect. It means if customer has CICS Channel progra...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Sessions survive abnormal end of a SuperSession region in a Generic Resource

We have two regions of Supersession running in parallel connected via Generic Resource.In case one region comes down, we would like that the users are able to log on to the other region and are able to logon to their saved sessions again.Currently...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Use of generic character in SET TRANSID for CBAC

We are planning the migration from CA DADS to CICS Batch Application Control and faced the need to convert CICS commands like “CEMT SET TRANSID(XX*),ENABLESTATUS(DISABLED)" allowed in DADS,too, as CBAC command using “SET TRANSID”, that is the only...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Filter on a GDG entry gives "Empty list"

Filter on a GDG entry gives in IDz the answer "Empty list", even though the GDG have children.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 9 Not under consideration