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Utilize user credentials when recording test cases in CICS instead of CICS user credentials

Current process requires RACF rule to permit CICS to store data at user level. This RACF rule or PERMIT would be mitigated if zUnit utilized user credentials. This would reduce customization steps on implementation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Enable 'Active job address space' view for all SYSPLEX address spaces

We have a SYSPLEX of three LPARs. In 'Remote Systems => JES => Active Jobs' I can see all active Jobs of those three systems. In 'Active job address space' view (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/explorer-for-zos/3.2?topic=subsystem-displayin...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching

Having the possibility to specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

IAM SCIM to page LDAP query results

Currently common Service IAM component does have a feature to display the LDAP query results by page. It can get all the results onetime and show it to the user. Due to the large amount of the data, IAM truncates and shows part of the query result...
over 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow for global custom JSONata functions that can be used across any mapping in the API.

Customer exchanges data between remote systems (UTF-8) and mainframe back-end (EBCDIC) that contains special characters which need to be translated to a specific back-end encoding and vice versa. The translation needs to take place while the data ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE authorization interceptor process improvement

z/OS Connect EE's authorization interceptor process internally requires all RACF GROUPs associated with the RACF ID that may belong to either Global Reader Group, Invoke Group, Operator Group, Reader Group to carry unique USS GID for successful va...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS APPL example update

CICS sample VTAM APPL definition does not include LOSTERM=IMMED
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Ship as PDSE for performance

With C header files in PDSes they cannot be cached in Z/OS and every compile needs to fetch from disk. If these were in PDSEs they they can be cached and avoid the I/O. See https://colinpaice.blog/2020/11/23/avoiding-i-o-by-caching-your-pdses-it-m...
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create new web socket timeout attribute

Like to request a new web socket timeout attribute separate from the DTIMEOUT element. As described in a recent PMR from IBM the DTIMEOUT is designed to release dead locks from other resources. It spends a lot of time issuing automatic retries and...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration