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Debug Tool should report the Jobname and Jobnumber in message +EQA4037I

It is very difficult in transaction systems like IMS MPP's, to find out the messages (i.e. Displays) if the user does not know in what region the IMS transaction was debugged. Therefore the Jobname and Jobnumber would be very helpfull
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

z/VM Operations Manager pre-built solutions

Customer gave a product feedback that everything needs to be manually implemented on z/VM ops Manager and no built in templates available for deploying product solutions easily.
11 months ago in Operations Manager for z/VM 1 Not under consideration

SMU - add RESET (Autodown) option in Rest API

We would like to have a RESET option in the SA Rest API, as is in SMU. This RESET then resets an application to the correct state, as you do in SA with AUTODOWN.For example, if an application is STOPPED and you want it to return to the correct state.
11 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

PCOMM FTP Client support for implict TLS connection and client certificate authentication

Certificate-based authentication can eliminate several initial steps in a traditional Userid/Password authentication process. Digital certificate-based authentication is phishing-resistant, user-friendly and convenient compared to passwords. Elimi...
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Need HW crypto card encryption support from node.js

While working with State Farm, their z15 systems are all come with HW crypto card enabled. They require the encryption to go through and use HW crypto card when deploying to production system. Our product WMLz (Watson Machine Learning for z/OS) is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Future consideration

zD&T Webserver enhancement - Add a feature to capture a list of reply commands

The IPL of our LPAR copy require a manual intervention (through the console) to issue reply commands in order to complete the IPL successfully. Can there be an option in the zD&T Webserver to configure each Image with the option to capture cus...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Support for TRS-Files and XMIT in FileManager

FileManager should support datasets like TRS-packed files,(used AMATERSE or TRSMAIN).The Suffix (sorry for windows-like wording) .TRS should be an Indicator to present a "look-into" and/or the ability to unpack it.Also a packing-ability should be ...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow for customer specific RACF groups to manage product administration

It is required as a security standard, that groups that are equal to schema of the tables cannot have any users connected to it, as by that, every user in the group becomes the owner of the table and can not only modify data but also drop the tabl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Enhance MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect to set message priority

Please enhance the MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect and the z/OS Connect API Toolket to set the message priority for MQ Services.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Support for plain text data in z/OS Connect EE

There are lots of software products, which are able to send HTTP request but can't process JSON responses. Currently z/OS Connect EE is limited to JSON responses, which means those software products can't invoke mainframe applications through z/OS...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

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