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Support for JAX RS 2.1

HATS 9.7.1 does not support JAX RS 2.1.This can result in JSON output that has erroneous data in it, significantly growing the payload size. Support case TS005196179 details examples and such. Please add support for JAX RS 2.1
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

GDPS/MGM does not handle all status combination

In a GDPS/MGM environment there are situations where the primary and secondary GM status combination is not handled properly. For example, after a hardware failure on an intermediate disk subsystem, if the B volumes are set to SIMPLEX due to a CST...
almost 9 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

HOD deployable in a Virtualized (VM) environment

HOD deploy able in a VM environment (IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service ; ie cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Track availability for multi-LPAR subsystems

Please allow tracking for multi-LPAR subsystems other than SYSPLEX. As long as one member of a multi-system resource or subsystem is available, there was no outage.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Support for anyOf/anyOf with discriminator

Our Developers are requesting support for oneOf/anyOf with discriminator support as provided in openAPI v3.. I've found that this type of capability had been requested in 2016 and 2017 RFEs and was declined -- adding a new RFE to express continued...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Automation of Key Management Operations

#Automation and scheduling As a key manager I need the ability to schedule or delay operations for key activation/deletion/rotation to a specific date and/or time of day. #Theme - Expiry/de-activation/deletion/rotation based on key usage pattern S...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation 1 Planned for future release

Improving sampling of already active JITCM

Functionality right now is incomplete
almost 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

AD Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs

Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs are not resolved correctly to show COBOL/Assembler programs being called in the call chain, they just show a pointer to PEM assembler macros. This is the case with all Hogan Assembler Programs. Per ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Newer software support releases for HATS

HATS 9.7 is currently not supported on Windows 2019, only 2016 - this is classed as end of life for Microsoft. There have also been reliability issues with the OS, so it would be better to support this on Windows 2019. Similarly, HATS has not been...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

HATS User List -- User selection enhancement

We are experiencing an issue with our connect macro, our connect macro made use of a user list If by mistake any of the IDs on the user list has a typo, that connection fails to be established which in turn causes that connection to never end and ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release