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Enhance Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) to support 62x160 screen size in IDZ v16

Please support 62x160 screen size in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDZ v16. Users can use this screen size in Host Emulator before in IDZ v15, however this screen size didn't support in IDZ v16 RCE. We have a wide number of ISPF applications...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Option for generating Alternate Copybook Format for JSON

Support alternate format for generated CopyBooks generated by zconbt (or an alternate utility). Current format is proprietary to zCEE Requester. An alternate format could be processed directly by native JSON Parsing/Generation using COBOL and PLI ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct

We would like that IBM Sterling Connect:Direct would be able to send files to HDFS
almost 5 years ago in IBM Communications Server for Data Center Deployment / Other 0 Not under consideration

Support for wildcard in DDL DROP for IMS Databases and PSBs

We refresh and rebuild test environment from production where we cleanup everything in test and build using the components from production by changing component names. So we could use DDL DROP with wildcard where we can erase the test definitions ...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 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

(De-)Provision zCX instance with zospt

zCX instances get provisioned and removed using predefined z/OSMF workflows. The required workflow definition files already exist but lack of being fully automated: the first step which gathers instance information by user interaction and the last...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration