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ability to throttle connections per client IP

Ability to throttle CM threads from the same IP address. We have some instances where a client grabs large numbers of connections with long timeout duration, that block other users from entering the gateway. If could throttle the number; analogous...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

NEWCOPY solution for CICSPlex applications

CICS to provide a solution/utility to do NEWCOPY against a module across all the CICSPLex regions where the PGM exists.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

REDEFINES Behavior: Requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request)

We are requesting support of JSON draft 4 schema within z/OS Connect, with "anyOf" & "oneOf" as it applies to REDEFINES support in IMS and CICS. Requirement: We have a requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request). The attac...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Future consideration

Preprocessing with UTF-8 characters

Parsing Programs with UTF-8 characters causes us Problems with our preprocessor functions
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Take Vector Registers into account in the Debug Tool's "Registers"-View

I am missing the possibility to view the vector registers when debugging an assembler program in batch using Debug Tool. The "Registers"-View from the "Debug"-Category should make the vector registers available for display and changes in their ful...
almost 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Event binding editor import data structure should support all valid COBOL picture strings

CICS Explorer 5.5 Event Binding editor cannot successfully import a COBOL language structure that contains an embedded '.' (decimal point) character in a zoned decimal field. Example:05 WS-COST PIC ZZZ.99.Such a picture string is valid in COBOL 6 ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

More granularity to secure CP work station over and above work station name.

We would like more granularity regarding the available sub-resources for altering CP work station attributes. The current level of protection is the work station name only.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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