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lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor

rolling out and adoption of eclipse based IDZ IDE has been very difficult due to the size, complexity and performance, so is the z/OS Connect API editor
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Support http-method PATCH

For some communication, especially REST-API's, the http-method PATCH is required. The CICS Web Interface should support it.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Provide Execute command for WTO workstations

There's no way to start an operation on a WTO workstation if submit is deactivated. Other operations (CPU-jobs) could be started using the Execute command. So we need a similar solution for WTO operations.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Authentication and identity propagation for API Rest DB2

When using ZCEE, you already have a connection with a USERID identified by RACF. When you go to the Rest DB2 API, the only two ways to identify yourself to DB2 are Basic Authentication or passtickets. In these two cases, the user is hard coded.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Job Callgraph

Job callgraph to include PROCS and STEPS

CH51; monitor specific tranid or list of tranid's - Service Pack,

CH51 Simple Monitor (Service Pack) is a very useful tool. On a busy production system, we can get a ton of lines of output. If investigating a specific transaction(s), it would be nice to have a filter. For example, for Monitor Levels: 1,2,3; have...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Allow download of non-sensitive key information

A download information in CSV format using the Table view selected columns would simplify management of key inventory tracking. It would also be useful to perform reconciliation between EKMF Web and with the z/OS based CKDS and PKDS datasets (whic...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Allow Java 7.1 in CICS TS 5.1

Allow CICS TS 5.1 to access Java 7.1_64.We installed CICS TS 5.1 in February, 2014We upgraded to Java 7.1_64 with our z/OS 2.1 upgrade in July, 2014.We do not currently use Java in CICS.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Omegamon for z/OS Address Space CPU Utilization to include all GCP CPU only

We are migrating from the ASG TMON Product Suite to the Omegamon Performance Suite and are busy creating the TEP workspaces and situations similar to what we had automated in the TMON Product sets. We added a Workspace called Address Space Overvie...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

JZOS - Support multi-block logstream reads

We would like to use JZOS functionality to read logstream(s) that are written to by applications running in the OLTP environment but it does not currently support MULTIBLOCK reads, which is much more performant than reading in a single block.
over 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered