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When the user send the character x'10' and others, with some emulators, CL/SUPERSSESION chokes

The Telnet 3270 emulator (Quick3270 Secure) send the ASCII character x'10' CL/SUPERSESSION cut the connection and choke. We have suffered the same problem with other emulator programs.
almost 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Include SMF type 42 in LISTSMF when INCLUDE-DSN

When using INCLUDE-DSN=Y for LISTSMF, only SMF record types 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 35, 36, 40, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69 will be checked. I'm missing type 42 in which I can find what actions have been taken within a PDS i.e. ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

I want to order single products of a licensed suite

We use the IBM products System Automation and Netview, which we now want to replace with subsequent releases. In our current contract with IBM, however, these products are no longer licensed and can therefore not be ordered using Shopz, even tho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Shopz 1 Not under consideration

Extension of NEWC in CICS

We need an extension to CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY. It should be possible that that this command could be restricted to a certain dataset or LIBRARY e.g. CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY DSN('A.B.C') or CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY LIB(ABC).
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

DBB Toolkit API - CopyToPDS does not support statistics

When the CopyToPDS command from the DBB Toolkit API is invoked to copy a ZFS file to a partitioned dataset, then the copied member in the PDS(E) has not statistics. The size, created, changed and ID fields are all empty. This does not seem logical...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

CEO

CTCz should be included in zD&T.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration