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support us to allow only one session for one user at a time through DWC.

It is possible now that multiple sessions can be started for a single user at a same time. Multiple sessions can lead to data integrity issues when concurrent access to the same data is allowed. We must restrict the no of sessions for the same use...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Replace Workload Scheduler exits with build in functionality

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Reference Application for zAPM components

Consider shipping reference application style scripts/injectors/stubs with the zAPM components to help the deployment teams to verify the installation without having to engage multiple teams across different technology areas. For zCEE - Consider u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow different zAPM Distributed Gateways to communicate

Where there are multiple DGs that may be globally dispersed, CICS (SYSPLEX1) connected to DG1 => MQ => CICS (SYSPLEX2) connected to DG2 may result in events being sent to different DGs for a single end to end message flow. Even though the DG...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter support on Spring Boot

We have several Java applications needing to invoke IMS transactions running on Cloud Native Platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). It would be beneficial if support was added for Spring Boot functionality for deployment of the resource adapter TMRA.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Convert zWS Exits to Parmlib

Due to the limited Assembler skills, it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain our multitude of zWS-related user exits. It would be beneficial to have the option of paramertising all zWS exits to allow us to remove our dependency on the legac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Netview ALLOCATE does not permit Concatenations

The Netview allocate command only permits the ability to allocate one dataset to a file name.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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