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Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Clean up type (CLN_Ty) in Error Handler Layout (1) doesn’t provide enough details or (2) wasting spaces on Error hander layout

Hello, Clean up type (CLN_Ty) can be set on he TWS error handler layout – see PIC1. It can have 4 values: A (Automatic), I (immediate), M (Manual), N (None) – see PIC2. This CLN_Ty uses 6 characters from the Layout. I would like to suggest two/thr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Remove empty fields from API responses

In the OpenAPI3 z/OS Connect Designer, there is currently no way to remove empty fields (i.e. "abcd" : "") from the API response. The OpenAPI2 API toolkit allowed us to easily do this. It would be beneficial performance wise to remove such fields ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

LCP SGC support in MGM3SITE in RECOVERY region

When we are in failover state where production runs from recovery region, we can't take any LCP captures. We would like the ability to use GDPS/LCP to take a SGC capture in MGM 3-SITE topology when the production is failed over in the Recovery reg...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
7 months ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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