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ATTLS for IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition

ATTLS is preferred mechanism for securing connections. IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Editionshould implement ATTLS support.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Support multiple containers when calling a CICS program using channel

Although WOLA supports multiple containers when invoking a CICS program using a channel interface, z/OS Connect EE only supports a single channel.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE 3.x Nullable field support

DB2 RESTful API definition via API TOOLKIT require SAR file generated by BUILDTOOLKIT. BUILDTOOLKIT requires REQUEST/RESPONSE schema created under DB2 RESTful SERVICE capabilities. They carry NULLABLE parameters/fields. While defining PATH paramet...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Enhancements to the CSD Resource Groups View.

It would be nice to have an easy view into what CSD groups are associated with what CSD lists. Could a column "CSD Resource List" be added to the CSD Resource Groups View? Also, other views can be "exported" by using control-C and control-V, and t...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122 (125715) Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL to support greater than 999,999 lines in source listing

Since the introduction of Enterprise COBOL version 5 in 2013/2014, IBM has been all about eliminating constraints and limits in the COBOL compiler. In Enterprise COBOL version 6, IBM introduced the 64-bit backend processing to support programs of ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Choice of colors for fonts of characters in the emulator TSO

In the development teams of people have vision problems. Some colors are avoided.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

CANZLOG Archive file management

CANZLOG archive management improvements for archive files.    There needs to be a means to correlate updates to index and CZTOPAGE with automatic deletion of archive files.  ...Ideally, provide a 'CZTOARCH' or equivalent that specif...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Delivered