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Support exclude feature for REXX MATCH() function

I need to exclude one or more item from a list to suppress an alert. So I would like a MATCH if something is NOT in the string. In my current situation I automate CNZ4200I (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=messages-cnz4200i), but I need...
7 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changes

Currently, when an API endpoint has new response fields added that an API Consumer does not need, z/OS Connect API Requester will start to fail unless its API Requester Archive (ARA) is updated so its definition of the API includes the new fields ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow TWS to cancel jobs it has submitted early

There's a new feature to allow TWS to submit jobs early to the systems, however as soon as it does then if a decision is made to not execute the job it needs to be done on the system, which would require giving additional RACF access. It would be ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Update CICS Service Provider to produce connector statistics

We would like to be able to monitor the connection statistics for the CICS SOR backends and whilst the IMS provider does use JCA, the CICS provider does not and therefore no JCA MXBean is provided which would allow z/OS Connect to gather the stati...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Add a filter for the AltClientID to the QUERY IMSCON TYPE(CLIENT) command

If you have hundreds or thousands clients connected to IMS Connect at the same time and if you are also using synchronous callout, having a filter on the AltClientID with the QUERY IMSCON TYPE(CLIENT) command could be very helpful when you have an...
11 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way for Developer to input a 'hex' key in a search string.

we have unique client identifiers which are 4 byte character representations of a 8 digit hex value. Eg. key_field_name : X'BE336244' This is the key in a wide number of tables and databases here, so is used quite commonly in queries. Issue When I...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Add DWC userid (in addition to RACF userid) to EQQPH72I message

Currently the EQQPH72I message, displayed in the mainframe server task which communicates with the zconnector to get to a DWC, contains only the RACFUSER value from the USERMAP table. There may be multiple DWC userids which have the same RACFUSER ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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