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Need a tool to batch ".SAR" creation.

We want to batch the IMS service creation instead of using the API Toolkit.We have more than 4500 service to migrate from our actual SOA plateform. We need an industrial way to generate ".sar(s)".
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

DB2 tooling: Add a feature to control the end users ability to save a DB2 connection password in the IDz clinet.

Currently there is the ability to disable the save password feature for connections to the RSE server using the following server side parameter. _RSE_JAVAOPTS="$_RSE_JAVAOPTS -DDENY_PASSWORD_SAVE=true" This feature does not extend to DB2 on z/OS c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Option to select levels other than 01 as the service interface

z/OS Connect API Toolkit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When importing Service copybooks with multiple data structures, provide support for structures that start at levels higher than 01. Example:We have copybooks containing multiple data structures which, wit...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

RDz DATA Perspective SQL - AUTOCOMMIT is always on

Create a default of AUTOCOMMIT for SQL in the Data Perspective to OFFand add a preference (if necessary) to give developers the option. Out of the box, ROLLBACK should be supported or the SQL return should not be successful if ROLLBACK is specifie...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

IMS service provider support for asyncRequestTimeout expiration

IMS service provider takes appropriate action when the asyncRequestTimeout expires Note: asyncRequestTimeout handling by the CICS service provider was added in V3.0.9.0.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic setting of database name and datastore name in IMS DB connectionFactory

Currently the IMS DB connectionFactory is unique to each datastore and database (PSB). So if your zOS Connect server supports five API serviced by IMS DB connections and they use five different PSB as they are application specific then you would n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS to provide an application setting that indicates the success level of a transaction

Business analytics requires knowing more about a transaction than just the CPU and elapsed time. The only current indicator of success is the abend code, which is too coarse an indicator. Did the transaction complete successfully? To what degree? ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Provide a DB2 user thread cancellation process within ITOM for DB2 REORG and Shutdown purposes.

DB2 reorgs on the ITOM tables and indexes can fail if a user - say an operator - that can't be cancelled is using ITOM. Also, the DB2 subsystem cannot be shut down for maintenance. We would like a feature built into the ITOM started task shutdown ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SQL Authentication

Allow " Windows Authentication " for the ID associated to the IBM AD SQL Identity.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

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