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z/OS Connect should provide appropriate HTTP error codes on errors within z/OS Connect or backend systems

Since a short time it is now possible to define HTTP return codes in z/OS Connect depending on codes the application sends back its response message, but in error Scenarios z/OS Connect still doesn't provide an appropriate HTTP error code. Instead...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

protection of productive systems by performing Hyperswap Unplanned validations with SETIOS HYPERSWAP

When we want to perform Hyperswpa Unplanned simulation tests we use the recommended 'SETIOS HYPERSWAP' command. Hyperswap Unplanned If it finds a system that is not ready for Hyperswap (for whatever reason), it does a SYSTEM RESET to ensure the su...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

New action type for CICS policies

Requesting a new action type for CICS policies: The ability to fail a CICS API request with a RESP/RESP2 code that indicates "REQUEST DENIED BY POLICY"
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

STGRCVY=NO should work as documented

Why is it useful? Abending the victim task of a storage violation is a defence against applications acting upon and/or committing corrupted data. CICS Documentation (all releases) promises "If you specify STGRCVY(NO), CICS abends the task if it is...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

RFE to make RTIMOUT attribute in PROFILE definition DYNAMIC

Change the RTIMOUT attribute within the PROFILE definition to be dynamic, so CICS Administrators can quickly update it to react to changing conditions in the network.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

upload temp. asymmetric configuration in a Dual Leg config, to migrate one secondary DS8000 at a time

We currently have 3 DSS pairs GDPS METRO HS). We need to life cycle one pair and for this we would like to use for the time of migration the MTM3side solution.All primary DSS are in Channelsubset 0 and the seconndary DSS are in Channelsubset 2! Th...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 10 Planned for future release

Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sharing one Java Shared Classcache between different users and its restrictions

We plan to use the Java Shared Classcache for our Java Batch Jobs to improve CPU usage and performance of our batch jobs. The batch jobs use for security reasons different users but should share one classcache. Sharing the same Shared Class Cache ...
10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CL/Supersession highlight active sessions main menu KLSVSEL1

Hello, It would really productive for our users to show a color difference between session statuses (Active/current and not active) in the main menu KLSVSEL1. There is not a parameter to configure that and we don't have enough skills with SSPL to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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