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Javadoc for JZOS as JAR or ZIP

Make the javadoc for JZOS available in a method that can be imported into an IDE as a standard part of the Java order and install, such as a zip or JAR.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow a CWS Web call to specify not to use MASSL

We have a CICS application calling z/OS Connect and wants to use Basic Auth over SSL. When z/OS Connect receives the requests, it asks CICS for a MASSL cert, and CICS obliges by sending the default cert on the ring, which in his case is not the au...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Encryption of the vsam databases

It could be advisable to have the possibility (by parameter of instance) to encrypt all (or some vsam database. only users having the right access to IWSz can access and read the content of the vsam files. there are some non-IBM tool allowing the ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

deadlock detection across both IMS and DB2

Create a configurable mechanism for detecting and terminating deadlocks across IMS and DB2.
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Apply Service Interface File properties on copybook import

Provide a mechanism in the zCEE API Toolkit so that during creation of a service project, after a copybook has been imported in the Service Interface Editor, there is an option to have the API toolkit lookup a supplied file that contains old name ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

General zvdt support for Z/VM layer 3 vswitch

Layer 3 vswitch includes all capabilities of Layer 2 plus routing capabilities. All Z/VM customers running ZVDT would benefit from this
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration