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IMS service provider support for asyncRequestTimeout expiration

IMS service provider takes appropriate action when the asyncRequestTimeout expires Note: asyncRequestTimeout handling by the CICS service provider was added in V3.0.9.0.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession Danish language Support

We have 2 customers using Supersession, where we have translated all relevant panels from English to Danish. What we have found is there is often PTF's which update these panels we've updated, so we need track changes to these panels via SMP/E use...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM - Must be able to recover isolated CMAS without restarting address spaces

Currently, whenever a CMAS becomes isolated for whatever reason it is not possible to restore ("un-isolate") the CMAS without restarting one or more address spaces. Similar situations occur whenever a CMAS/CMAS link (MRO) fails for any reason. Rec...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

SQL Authentication

Allow " Windows Authentication " for the ID associated to the IBM AD SQL Identity.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

CICS TG - ECI status request - support for DSS CTG feature

Hello,as described in the PMR we need support for querying status of a CICS server group defined in CTG. Currently ECI status requests supports only querying of individual CICS server.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Server Clustering for RESTful Administration Services

Today the RESTful Administration Interface only administers single z/OS Connect server instances. WAS Liberty does have server clustering capabilities. For those who designed a High availability z/OS Connect solution, clustering would be a great f...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need a tool to batch ".SAR" creation.

We want to batch the IMS service creation instead of using the API Toolkit.We have more than 4500 service to migrate from our actual SOA plateform. We need an industrial way to generate ".sar(s)".
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

LOOKUP builtin function

Lookups are usually done via do i=1 to n while(^match) ordo i = 1 to n until(match) loops. This type of processing is not efficient even (see the "Use Case" below) if subsequent matches match on a next item in a table. What is proposed is a new bu...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

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