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SNI Support for outbound connections in CICS

Some of our clients setup a server for example at Amazon (AWS).CICS can not connect to the server through HTTPS due to SNI enabled. Unfortunately there are No easy way for CICS sysprog to understand the underlying protocoll used.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add an option to the Retrieve Data Set feature to restrict search on additional qualifiers

In remote systems perspective, when we retrieve datasets in MVS files, there no option to restrict the dataset filter criteria to a particular number of qualifiers or nodes. This would be similar to unchecking the " Include Additional Qualifiers" ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

We want to make a global requireSecure available for API requesters

For zosconnect_apiRequesters element, the apiRequester sub-element has both requireAuth and requireSecure defined. We understand that requireAuth is available at a higher level to cover all zosconnect_apiRequesters. We have a need for requireSecur...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

64-bit RBD debugger and Remote VSAM; Support for Z/VSE SAM ESDS files in VSEDDM and VSE connector

This RFE contains three items. 1) Z/VSE SAM ESDS support to RBD's remote VSAM access (via VSEDDM and VCS)3) Possibility to select which VSE Connector's port VSEDDM is using2) VSEDDM support for 64-bit RBD
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

improve performance for large projects by days during MAKE request for API resolution (HDI) step

Currently our project MAKE takes days to complete. This is due to AD build process calling the API resolution (HDI - Hogan Discovery Interface from DXC) for each source element in the project even if it has not changed. This takes us about 58 hour...

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered