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add DFDL the structure to structure support to openAPI

currently only one schema can be defined for request/response in openAPI swagger. This does not allow you to use the DFDL structure to structure schemas. DFDL structure-to-structure schemas have proven to be very good at reducing the amount of mai...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enable generate action for minor/simple maintanance on MCM

I would like to have a simple generate action in MCM to activate PTF's in the running environment of OMEGAMON without going through the whole procedure of MCM or PARMGEN.
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide CICS Stats to show peak Threads used for JVM

The RDO definition for a JVM includes the maximum number of threads. CICS Explorer and DFHSTUP always show all Threads in use. I'd like to see the actual number of threads used so we know if the number defined is appropriate. DFHSTUP output JVMSER...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Missing UP message for CKMJMAIN.

CKMJMAIN does not have a message for System Automation or other product to identify that it has been completely initialized and has successfully connected to all hosts.
about 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 2 Delivered

Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA

We would like to give our API developers the capability to specify on OTMA timeout value and activate IMS OTMA transaction expiry. We would like the developer to be able to specify the timeout value and whether to activate transaction expiry or no...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Monitoring enhancement for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" check

Enhance GDPS scripts to include steps to perform a check for "Outboard Copy Inhibit" condition for the volumes on the DS8000 as a health check prior to taking any copy services actions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Ergonomic character size

With the availibilty of the large displays like 24" and 27" with their high screen resolution PCOMM no longer provides the required ergonomic minimum character size. Changing the screen resolution does not solve problem, as any screen has only one...
about 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Make CP22 APAR PH44215 (new back chain validation) configurable by new CRUISE Table parameter.

CP22 APAR PH44215 included new back chain validation where the backward chain in the prime should now be the last in chain. Full backward chain validation is also in play with PH44215.We ran into some old/legacy databases that were created before ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

[RPP] Rule "éviter les expressions NEXT SENTENCE"

Related to archived case TS002533615 in RPP 962 : Il ne faut pas appliquer cette règle sur ce qui est généré par une ligne N de type IT DW DU... car c'est le générateur qui produit la clause NEXT SENTENCE. Bernard ETIENNE wrote " I confirm this de...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered