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Preferred/failover config for IPIC

Provide a mechanism for having a list of preferred IPIC connections while still having an HA failover list.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow Filtering on CICS system Policies

Need "Filtering" option on system Policies - similar to CICS Events Need a means of limiting a system Policy to specific transactions.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to process zOS Connect SMF Data

Enable CICS Performance Analyzer to process the SMF data produced by zOS Connect.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

CICS PA Web solution

-- We open this RFE as requested by IBM in our previous PA discussion. Details were discussed in the meeting. We would like to see if IBM has any plans to provide web based analytics to CICSPA, where the PA reports in MF can be sent to a web serve...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

enable cut and paste from properties tab in toolkit for API url and doc

from the toolkit properties pane when viewing the properties for an API/service make the URL and DOC links copyable so they can be easily pasted in another tool such as Postman
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Improved Debugging for IMS Message Processing Programs

Although we publish that we can debug IMS/MPPs in an IMS Message Processing Region, we really do not have a viable solution to debug programs in an IMS MPP environment. If a customer has Xpediter/IMS, and wants to use Debug Tool to replace this fu...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 7 Delivered

Linklist indicator for Lpars are being displayed for only Lpars where the IQ jobs are being run but the the same linklist indicator is not valid for other lpars in the sysplex.

Its an Audit exposure where the wrong linklist indicators are being displayed for other Lpars in the sysplex apart from the Lpars where the IQ jobs are run which shows the right Linklist .
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

Support VAR4 abbrevation of VARYING4

There are abbrevations for dynamic length chars: VARYING -> VAR VARYINGZ -> VARZ VARYING4 -> (none) Please support VAR4 as abbrevation of VARYING4.
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity. z/OS Connect EE is extraordinary product that allows mainframe programs and assets to be accessed and consumed as APIs. With the ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

mapping left Ctrl key

in ISPF left Ctrl = reset, right Ctrl = Enter. In Rdz you cannot map Ctrl only in preferences --> General --> Keys. And you cannot make a diff between left and right.A solution could be to allow left and right Ctrl in the binding field.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 8 Delivered