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Autoformat rules for the IDz COBOL editor handling of spaces brackets needs to be configurable.

The basic autoformat rules should cover the requirements for most of the IDz COBOL users. To prevent not be dictated by IDz. The rule templates should be configurable by each individual user as well as being enforced by an IDz admin. See for examp...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Defining separate VLAN for primary and alternate

When defining an OSA1PRIM/OSA1ALT redundant pair of interfaces, the VLAN tag defined for the Primary is forced on the Alternate when an interface failover takes place. We don’t believe this is correct if these interfaces are not part of an LACP ag...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Joblog messages to Syslog request

When will you be adding joblog messages to Syslog requests? When this is available, what will be externalised - errors only or all event types?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Issue with pseudo RBA feature of File manager

We have completed IAM 10.00.02 upgrade .Customer was doing testing for IAM with file manager & found file manager is not reading RBA.Something is up with File Manager though since it’s happening on both IAM V9.4 files and V10.0 files . the iss...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 6 Delivered

Search Module and datasets showing ALIAS-OF

Is it possible to capture the ALIAS-OF values for each module and dataset listed within the reports?
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

Provide more granularity in SSL/TLS Protocols

Provide an Max TLS Version SITPARM in addition to Min TLS Version so that installations of CICS can have granularity to configure connectivity with partners that are not tolerant of certain TLS versions.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer - WLM MAP Function

We want to have a modern representation of the WUI MAP function adapted to CICS Explorer.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Allow JCICS and JDBC calls in an OSGi bundle activator class

We do have the need to call JCICS and JDBC services within the activator class of an OSGi bundle.It is an essential requirement to have access to JCICS and JDBC during the initialisation of a bundle. Otherwise the software reuse of Java code alrea...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Preserve mappings when replacing a service in API method

It would be immensely useful if you could preserve the mappings when we replace a service by a service with a different name in a API methods. A little bit like you do when we import a more recent service (.sar file) with the same name in an API p...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Improve documentation around MQMonitor

I think there is a lot of scope for improving the documentation around the security requirements for the MQMonitor. There are a couple of changes around surrogate access by the CICS region logon-id to one or more other logon-ids depending on how o...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered