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Provide a validation job for the setup of the two DB2 databases required by EKMF Web.

EKMF Web requires two databases (one for key management and one for the scanner) that incorporates many structures and fields. Providing a validation job will ease the DBA's job and prevent frustration when it is time for the user (not the DBA) to...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Delivered

Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs

Hi, Currently a CICS region can only use the SSL keyring that is owned by the region owner ID. We can't share same keyring between multiple regions if they run under different owner IDs. With the increase in number of CICS regions, its becoming ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present

Today we can create rules to take action based on Conditions with EQUAL, AND, and OR operations. for example:<conditions> <header name="cicsTran" value="KE18,KE20"/> </conditions> <actions> <set property="cicsTransId" va...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow date/time interval to be specified on KJJSTART menu for SMF ID to see API's

Currently we have 6 production & qa cloned z/os connect address spaces. When looking for a particular API, we have to go thru 6 different servers on 2 lpars individually - very time consuming.. The KJJSTART menu now allows us to put a Z in fro...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 2 Delivered

Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds

Together with a customer we ran a zCEE v3 PoC. We ran into trouble where we could not connect to the APIs on the zCEE server anymore and not all APIs were loaded, receiving cryptic error messages in the Eclipse GUI and in zCEE messages.log. We cou...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Truncate Cobol Data Structure

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

CICS/PA support for static field

We would like to add the plex name as a JSON element when sending to Splunk. I'm not sure where the plex name can be sourced - it could be a variable, or we could determine it from the image name (group name?). It could be a variable that we can s...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Prevent DFHSI1517 Control is given to CICS message until after the Java Applications are actually ready for work

Given the problem described in RFE 108941, we additionally need CICS startup to prevent the "Control is Given to CICS" message until after all the Java Bundle Installation processing has completed (successfully or not). WLM Health is an insufficie...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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