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TLS 1.3 Support for PersonalCommunications for TN3270-Access

BSI Germany (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) wants us to switch to TLS 1.3 for network security.IN PCom V15 there is TLS 1.3 mentioned, but only for HTTPS-Connections. So please add support for Personal Communications when usi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the Normal CFs and the Standby CFs that are normally deactivated

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the "Normal" CFs and the "Standby" CFs that are normally deactivated. The customers need that the GDPS in its Coupling Facility operations differentiates between the "Normal" Coupling Facilities and the "Stand...
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

COBOL function hbound() for tables

COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Store Copy Book Comments with IMS Catalog import

When importing PL/I structures, we need to be able to preserve the Comments. Ideally with the import process. The comments should be stored with the metadata in the IMS Catalog and recreated with a future DCLGEN utility for the IMS Catalog.
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Create CICS web service assistant to transform YAML into COBOL, or any utility to provide mapping between YAML and COBOL copybook.

YAML users need BINDJCL and the ability to convert YAML file COBOL equivalent copybook. Per IBM CICS doesn't provide anything to perform a mapping between YAML and COBOL
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view and filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Resubmitting old RFE that still would be of use during problem analysis. https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-876 https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-2081 Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Att...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Ignore unexpected fields in the Response to apiRequester call in Open API V2

We have CICS Transactions issuing apiRequester calls to various distributed applications. Occasionally we find that these distributed applications may add new fields to the response as part of a new release, often without notifying the application...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

generic BAQCSTUB in SBAQLIB to merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1

Please merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1 into a single dataset or use distinct program names across the two datasets. Using unique program names when unique functionality is required allows customers to use LinkList to pull the version of zOS Connect int...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

System Shutdown Boost Enhancements

When a system is being shutdown system automation checks if any recovery boosts are active.If any are active then the shutdown boost is not activated by system automation.This means that when you shutdown multiple systems one after the other in a ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

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