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z/OS Connect log retention

In z/OS Connect, the Liberty runtime does only size-based log rolling and you can only specify the max number of files to keep. Customer is looking to retain the z/OS Connect log one day at a time and say keep them for a months time. Similar to Ap...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

CTG 9.3 : Direct extraction of the RACF ID from a JWT instead of going through a distributed ID mapping

he support for JWT authentication in CTG V9.3 assumes that the JWT contains a distributed ID that then needs to be mapped by CICS to a RACF ID using a RACMAP definition. We would like to send a RACF ID in a JWT claim so that the CTG then extracts ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Request to add PF key short cuts to sessions

We are migrating to your product from another vendor that allows users to associate PF keys with a particular session. This has impacted users productivity by not being able to perform this function.
almost 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Validate BPXWDYN parms in DBB toolkit

I am receiving the following error when compiling a cobol module Caused by: com.ibm.dbb.build.BuildException: BGZTK0016E An error occurred running BPXWDYN command 'alloc dd(TMP00004) shr'. I know this is caused by a blank property value but I cann...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 5 Delivered

Need to stop IDz searching on whole MVS level

Need a way to stop IDz searching on whole MVS level, just like in ISPF 3.4 option, users cannot input "*" as the first dataset qualifier. Otherwise it will cost high CPU on host and frozen in listener.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE)

Provide direct IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect via REST/JSON APIs.
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Providing capability within GUI to download/export Audit Log and Dataset Dashboard information to provide to auditors.

M&T Bank team shared that this would be helpful for them in showing the audit log information to auditors without requiring them to give access to EKMF Web directly. They mentioned that this capability was something they'd automatically expect...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Add Back the CICS Explorer Release to CICS Explorer Download Filenames in IBM GitHub

Currently the CICS Explorer Release is no longer part of the Download File name in IBM GitHub. Only the Aqua Release is represented. Understanding that we don't want to extend the file path names we would like to see both the Aqua and CICS Explore...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Possibility to disable (hide) "Manage schedules"

In our shop we use ZWS for the planned stop/start of subsystems. We do not use INGSCHED, nor want colleagues to use it. As they do not know INGSCHED, they do not use it. But with SMU the option is visual as one of the operational tasks and thus th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered