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API Toolkit enhance swagger info object to include contact object

Currently using the API Toolkit feature under zOS Explorer there is no option to include the contact object as part of the info object which currently includes description and version. As a result contact information for an API is missing from the...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Possibility to suppress the server URL in error messages

VA tester tried to provide an invalid input where the input data exceeds the maximum length. The actual ZConnect URL is sent back in the error message as part of the response. {"errorMessage":"BAQR0429W: API RetrieveCreditChargeCardFulfillmentArra...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Add support for Aqua 3.3.

Currently, users who have migrated to IDz 16.0.3 are missing a critical piece of previously existing productivty tooling - the IMS Explorer integration. It would be beneficial to have the tooling updated to support the latest version before versio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

Request ALTPCB output support ICON SENDRECV mode

For client who use SENDRECV interaction, it wait for IMS region response by ISRT IOPCB. However, when IMS region use ISRT ALTPCB to send message, the output message keep in HOLDQ and client need to use RESUME TPIPE to receive the response message....
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Delivered

IDz 14.2 Deactivate Personalization questionnaire

Hello, We're using IDz 14.1.7 and want to migrate to 14.2.n.For us it's mandatory to deactivate Personalization questionnaire that appears when a workspace is opened for the first time.This request is because we want to provide to our users a stan...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Better tolerate STOP/START of container

The current iteration of zAPM required specific actions be taken in zAPM when the container or MQ region is stopped or restarted:- "Note: If IBM MQ is stopped or restarted for any reason, you need to either recycle the container address space or r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Delivered

CICS/PA support for static field

We would like to add the plex name as a JSON element when sending to Splunk. I'm not sure where the plex name can be sourced - it could be a variable, or we could determine it from the image name (group name?). It could be a variable that we can s...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Automatic RESTART of collections if current time is more than x hours away from the normal scheduled restart.

There are several collections that one can schedule .. for example RMM collections or Dataset Attributes collections... If the TEPS Started task has been restarted (due to an IPL for example), and the current time is AFTER the time set in the coll...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 3 Delivered