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Refreshable Exit support for additional exits

Provide refreshable exit support for DFSMSCE0 and DFSQSSP0
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer MFA Support for zOS Connections outside RSE

Currently only zOS RSE connections include MFA support. We currently use zOS FTP, zOS Connect, etc. Connections.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Add parameters related to logging and CHKW calls for USERMOD elimination

We have a USERMOD in place for IMS V15 related to performance. This USERMOD was originally put in place for logging performance issues in our environment related to high volume BMPs causing logging delays and holding up the BMP and online environm...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ZUnit: Import of recorded data despite program termination

If a program abort occurs during recording, a dialog should appear that gives the user the option to import the data recorded so far into the Test Case Editor or to discard it.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Not under consideration

Add SQL builder in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support some of our developers are missing the possibility to graphicly build SQL query with SQL Query Builder, if possible bring this functionality into IDz 16 SQL editor.
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement in the "Field Expansion Report" - Including JCL as well

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and the "Field expansion report" shows all the Programs, but doesn't show the JCLs using those programs. It shows the file descriptors in the program but not flagging the JCLs using those programs as impacted.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Reuse BAQCSTUB existing connection from DB2 Stored Procedure

We ask to add to BAQCSTUB the capability to re-use the connection to z/OS Connect when called from DB2 stored Procedure.There is no way for the BAQCSTUB to persist its connection between invocations of the stored procedure in the WLM managed Exter...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

zUnit to support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration