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Add the support for DBCS on SMU

Our customer is using System Automation SDF(NetView NCCF) to display the important message which includes DBCS characters.Messages in DBCS are required to display on SMU monitoring panel after migrating SDF to Service Management Unite.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

SYSMDECK: Flag Begin and End of COBOL code which has been included by COPY or EXEC SQL INCLUDE

In SYSMDECK output of the new COBOL compiler (V5), we see all COBOL code, which has been included to the source by COBOL COPY or EXEC SQL INCLUDE.The orginal COPY statement is modified to a comment and could be considered as BEGIN of copied code -...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

GMTRAN DISCONNECT Option Expansion

When using the default CICS signon program, a user is able to clear the screen using ESC and run transactions under the default CICS user ID. Using End/PF3 terminates the session, but clearing the screen using the ESC key does not. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

ZUnit: Import of recorded data despite program termination

If a program abort occurs during recording, a dialog should appear that gives the user the option to import the data recorded so far into the Test Case Editor or to discard it.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Future consideration

Cleanly stop automation on NetView close.

On NetView close, stop new automation and wait for autotasks to clear their queues (or some specified leeway), before continuing with CLOSE.As new messages received while NV is unavailable are buffered, the shutdown should make use of this to ensu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add an 80% warning message before zWS reaches 100% limit for adding applications of the same name. (EQQM952E & EQQM952I)

To add a 80% alert before an application reaches its limit of 1440 entries to be added. EQQM952E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION XXXXXXEQQM952I REASON: NO UNIQUE INPUT ARRIVAL TIME LEFT IN CP FOR THIS APPLICATION This will give Scheduling team time to r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Suppress or obfuscate queryString in SMF123 records

Currently SMF123 records expose query parameters in RESTFUL requests as queryStrings. Enterprises using Z/OS Connect EE should have the option to suppress or obfuscate queryStrings in SMF123 records to both ensure that comply with GDPR / DP / PSD2...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking

Enhance the z/OS Connect Configuration to Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking. This could be provided via a new parameter to instead check a RACF class such as EJBROLE as already done for the "safRoleMapper" statemen...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated Timeout Parm for WEB CONVERSE/WEB RECEIVE

We currently use WEB CONVERSE to get data back from remote services via HTTP. We have run into issues whereby system failures on the destination side will not send a response resulting in the CICS task to indefinitely wait until intervention occur...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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