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Option to send message DFHMP* to syslog/consoles when policies are triggered

Currently, messages DFHMP* issued when a policy is triggered are sent to CSSL via CMPO TD. To send them to syslog/consoles, we need to use XMEOUT exit. It should be interesting to have an option in rules part of policies to send them to syslog/con...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml

Currently securing API/service access is managed within server.xml. This takes management of security away from our security team and into the hands of systems teams having to maintain and manage the access for every individual API or service. the...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Dual Control for GDPS-LCP

To further enhance protection against an individual that has gained access to our systems (or insider) with malicious intent, it is essential to secure the ability to perform destructive actions against our safeguarded copies such as making policy...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider

We have many z/OS-hosted APIs that we want to expose to our entire enterprise. Our existing z/OS Connect tooling emits Swagger 2.0 as a description of that API, but our corporate API infrastructure requires OpenAPI 3.0 standard taxonomy. The corpo...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Dynamic Workload Distribution of IPIC traffic from zCEE to CICS

We need to be able to distribute to Multiple CICS Router regions.. Round-Robin would be sufficient.We use Supportpac CA1T for this functionality, in CICS TG and think that would be a great addition to zCEE.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

Support to JCECCARACFKS certificates on EQAPROF

In case TS012216270 we are told that the EQAPROF does not support RACF certificates with the key in PKDS (JCECCARACFKS) only JCERACFKS. I think it would be a good idea to add that support since we have customers who use a single SITE type certific...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS Terminal Detail return all rows

The CICS Plex CICS TERMINAL DETAIL agent does not return all rows. It was designed to access the WHERE TERMID = on the query and returrn only that row. We need to return ALL ROWS. We openned case TS009532669 and lab reccomended to change this woul...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

ITOM Print to Dataset

In these days, most of printing need to be made to datasets for subsequent delivery , and not for printers. This is a facility that all ITOM users mention and request. The actual processes only permits to print to spool when using ISPF and to spoo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add CHANGE in FCH and DSED support for zEDC compressed datasets.

Our project recently applied zEDC compress for most of the datasets we use. After the change, jobs that use FileManager's CHANGE command in the FCH function and DSED abend.
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Certify the current tos release with windows server 2022.

Our servers are being loaded with windows server 2022. We need to know that TOS has run in the tpf lab on windows 2022 successfully.
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered