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4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Integration Test Builder for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe. Currently we have Set of TWS workstation ID and password saved in PARMFTA userinfo dataset on mainframe to connect to connect to zcentric workstation pn windows This userid and password is...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

It is very helpful for analyzing the issue independently

It is useful for all kinds of Systems programmer (CICS, DB2, MQ) to speed up the analysis their issues
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 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

MQ Trigger support

An important customer in Italy is showing interest in our end-to-end Instana solution (z + dist.). They use IMS as a transaction monitor and applications arrive on the z platform via WASz or via MQ. zAPM Connect currently support only MQ Bridge fo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Enhance Python API zsystem.read_console to use OPERLOG

The current capability of the Python API only captures the syslog of the system that the API executes on. If a user wanted to automate some function / task that required capturing messages from the console in a sysplex environment that contains mu...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Silent printing using Print API

The ability to print a document(s) received using the print API without having the user to use the print preview on their browser for each document sent. current applicative solution is a pop-up window on the client side browser holding the HTML c...
4 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

.NET Core+ versions of EntireX DLLs

Microsoft has been clear for sometime that .NET Core and beyond is where their support for the .NET platform lies now. The .NET versions of the EntireX runtimes have languished in .NET Framework with no sign of .NET Core support. If you're serious...
4 months ago in EntireX 2 Under review

Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release