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Automation Server job status

It would be useful to have a field in the HSIACDS dataset that customers could update with the result of the job execution. Customers could add a job step to update the ACDS with an RC or other status information. Maybe 'FAILED' or 'WAITING RERUN'...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

Add OS Version to repository in IZSAM

Operating System Version VVRRMM is currently captured during IQ Scan. Please add this to the repository and include in Machine Inventory report. This property will assist in asset management, especially LPAR and Hardware assets. Our Asset Manageme...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Delivered

RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

z/OS Connect - Provide a complete fully supported solution for dynamic updates (i.e. updateTrigger mbean)

z/OS Connect - Provide a complete fully supported solution for dynamic updates (i.e. updateTrigger mbean) Updates of Liberty Profile server.xml file, and z/OS Connect zosConnectDataXform files are either: - automatic with a polling interval -- CPU...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

cics link to Liberty JVM Server

To make I more easy integrating web technology to existing 3270 views it would be very nice to have the possiblility to exec cics link a Liberty JVM Server. This would give the possibility to refresh a browser view on clicking a 3270 button using ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 21 Delivered

Microsoft Active Directory Integration for Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin

Currently, when setting up users and groups in Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin page, the administrators are going through a time consuming process of setting up users and groups manually. The users need to be added via an import f...

Provide an additional filter for TIM or DTSP (and EQAD3CXT) for IMS to select data in the input message

Customers need a way to select specific instances of transactions based on a specific content of the IMS message.
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

CICS timeout for web client commands

We use RTIMOUT to limit the amount of time a CICS web client process(WEB OPEN/SEND/RECEIVE/CLOSE) will wait for a response from a web service. According to doc this is our only choice. It would be more convenient to have the ability to specify a t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS Explorer Smartcard Login

Our team wants to use the CICS Explorer for CICS administration. Our company's security regulations prescribe using SSL client authentication with certificates for the login process. CICS Explorer just allows login with user id and password. We ne...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Eliminate need to define LE module names in CICS DFHCSD

Currently Language Environment Modules must be defined in CICS DFHCSD. LE definitions must correspond with the current active z/OS level. If they do not, various error situations which are hard to debug and resolve can occur. During a z/OS migrati...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 11 Delivered