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API Requester Security flow jwt-bearer

With the two OAuth flows supported today by z/OS Connect: Client credentials (client_id + client_secret) Resource owner password credentials (client_id + client_secret + username + password) If we want to call a remote API from a mainframe applica...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Another way for controlling access between IWSz and zCentric IWS-agent on distributed platform instead of using member in EQQPARM dataset.

An audit has revealed that some users have access to both userIDs and passwords for zCentric agent users when updating these in member in EQQPARM dataset.Even if we encrypt the EQQPARM dataset, the person(s) adding/updating user-info into EQQPARM ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add visibility when a panel has a syntax error

When a panel has a syntax error, in TLVLOG we see messages KLKDM1* on the first time the panel was called, but that can be hours after the STC started, so it goes undetected. Is there a way to make such errors more visible ? For example, if these ...
11 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local

TS015047272: IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local. File contains non-roundtrippable characters tried to transfer from remote system to local should transfer those char as well ex CR fL...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

RACF granulation of CICS tran CEKL SET PURGE, FORCEPURGE and KILL commands

We want to allow the app devs to purge or forcepurge misbehaving transactions but not to kill them, for example. CEKL/CEMT SET KILL is hazardous to address space integrity in ways purge or forcepurge are not. We don't want app devs to be able to...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

Support data compression in the z/TPFDF product (TPFUG Requirement)

Support subfile data compression/decompression with option to compress the entire subfile or selected Lrecs.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide TS7700 BVIR support

The latest VTS technology does not use SMF type94 records for VTS monitoring/performance. Instead, BVIR records exported from the clusters are extracted. Need to be able to load these records for VTS activity and other information.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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