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Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

When the user send the character x'10' and others, with some emulators, CL/SUPERSSESION chokes

The Telnet 3270 emulator (Quick3270 Secure) send the ASCII character x'10' CL/SUPERSESSION cut the connection and choke. We have suffered the same problem with other emulator programs.
about 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Create round-robin algorithm for CPSM routing.

This new routing algorithm would add to the existing [LN]GOAL and [QUEUE]. Allowing, by option of the system management, that the distribution of the routing is perfectly balanced. With the choice of this algorithm, it would be interesting to para...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zOS Connect enable generics in zosConnectAPI name construct

in order to secure API using the authorizationInterceptor for access by different teams we currently have to specify every API and define the relevant access. With naming standards we can group these much more efficiently using generics for exampl...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Ability to add customer internal software product ids via a user field

Software products are assigned product ids by the vendors. As part of our firm's internal processes, we assign resource ids to vendor software and would like to be able to add our internal software product ids via some sort of custom field somewhe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Not under consideration

WF Micropattern DES=3 LEV=2 in Cobol Screen with 3 index generated as in a batch Program

Hi, When a Segment xxnn has a value in the Table size field of Segment Definition tab (Data Structure doesn’t have a common part Segment), if I insert the WF Micropattern in Working storage of a Screen to declare a table using this segment with De...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Add an action Character to start a Session without a Init Dialog

Add an additional Action Character in CL/Supersession to start a Application Session without using the defined Initial Dialog.
almost 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

zos_backup_restore ansible module looping over an inventory item with multiple entries + restore HLQ

Dear colleagues, First of all I would like to apologize in advance if this topic has been posted before, or if it will be created in an inappropriate section of the website interface. I am currently working on developing an MQ upgrade playbook and...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration