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configurability of RAFC group names

The RACF group names (i.a. DBBADMNS, DBBUSERS, DBBGUEST) used in DBB should be configurable so they can be changed to adhere to company name conventions. Otherwise it can be difficult to roll out DBB Version 2.
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

JSON GENERATE : Conditional SUPPRESS

JSON object, unlike copy cobol, are flexible : a JSON object can have non-mandatory name/value pairs missing. Currently with JSON GENERATE : - for a string, when the value is all space, a single space is kept. - for a number, when the value is 0, ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Userid information should be displayed in ZCEE Early Failure 401 Authorization requests logged by Omegamon/JVM

The ability to monitor early authorization failures HTTP 401 is now available in z/OS Connect and Omegamon/JVM but the userid and mapped userid is not displayed for these failure requests. The userids are retrieved by using getUserPrincipal() whic...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Add the hability to process NULL values in COBOL

In order to use some REST/JSON APIs, we need to be able to process NULL value in COBOL. We had oppened the TS004435032 support case on this matter. Is it possible to add cobol support for NULL values or to add it to the JSON PARSE & GENERATE J...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements

Objective To add more data to the z/OS Connect Audit record for auditing and monitoring purposes. Description As the SMF123 record is described as the z/OS Conned Audit record, it would be appropriate that more information from USS log files shoul...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

FAZ Plug-in: Fault List should be sorted by combined Date_Time value

(Please also see Case TS008090491 for a detailed discussion of the issue that this RFE wishes to resolve) Hi, When using the ISPF interface, if the Fault List is sorted by Date, values of Time are sorted accordingly within each date value, regardl...
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered