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improve performance for large projects by days during MAKE request for API resolution (HDI) step

Currently our project MAKE takes days to complete. This is due to AD build process calling the API resolution (HDI - Hogan Discovery Interface from DXC) for each source element in the project even if it has not changed. This takes us about 58 hour...

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements

We have been using BAS (Business Application Services) frequently for resource definitions in our environments. Currently we use WUI for BAS Administration views and BATCHREP (Batched repository update requests). It would be nice to enhance Z/OS e...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule

Allow a system policy rule to be defined when multiple conditions evaluate true. For example when the MQ connection is enabled AND the DB2 connection is enabled. Another example would be when multiple bundle resources achieve a desired state.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide a dynamic link management function for GM

IBM provided a dynamic link management ability in GDPS v4.5, which is a really nice addition, but have so far not released the same ability for GM. That impacts us as Metro Global customers because we have to have 2 procedures for managing link fa...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

OLSMS display refinements to storage group TOTALs

The current information displayed can be inaccurate when volumes in the storage group are in a Disabled or Quiesced state.
over 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Add new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999

Please enhance V5.3 to support a new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999 as the “internal” format of the existing patterns YYYY-MM-DD-HH.MI.SS.999999YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.999999YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999999 everywhere in DATETIME, REPATTERN, MINDATE...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Change the path of the extensions directory with the properties files to our naming conventions

For now, there are 2 Directories under the ../var/... path. It is possible to adapt the Servers path to our naming conventions, but it is not yet possible for the extensions Directory..../var/zosconnect/extensions/... should NOT be hard coded.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered