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RDz support for Mac

Currently, RDz runs on a Windows machine and Linux (I believe). I would like to see RDz (and all plug-ins) like DataStudio, IA, etc. run on a Mac machine.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Modernize DFHPLT - Transition away from assembled table

Migrate DFHPLT from assembled CICS tables to a format that is more easily maintained. Typical replacement for assembled tables has been definitions in the DFHCSD, and more recently, equivalent function in the CICS Explorer. Given the simple nature...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API When a client submits an API request to z/OS Connect, it receives a response (with JSON payload), and an HTTP status code. However, the status code does not reflect any non-fatal...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

CICSPlex WLM should take attention on TCLASS

CICSPlex WLM does not take care of TCLASS in the target regions. Transactions are may routed into a single region being queued while other CICS regions have not reached the TCLASS limit.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

ability to map multiple response messages with API Requesters

With API Requesters, we need to ability to map multiple API response messages for a given API , with the zconbt tooling, and have the appropriate transform done based upon the http response code. Implicit in this request is the need for transforma...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

missin jcl procstep information in the RDz

in ispf sdsf a column procstep is shown in the table. this information is missing in the RDz. in some cases that leads to datasets in the jes output you can not distinguish from each other. witch dataset is from witch step in the proc?
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider

We have many z/OS-hosted APIs that we want to expose to our entire enterprise. Our existing z/OS Connect tooling emits Swagger 2.0 as a description of that API, but our corporate API infrastructure requires OpenAPI 3.0 standard taxonomy. The corpo...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Message which indicates if ICSF is available at CICS startup

CICS should write a message at startup indicating if SSL processing will be done via software or hardware.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide Filter for Control Scripts in the Panels

We have a large number of scripts in our Metro environment in certain GDPS plexes. The ability to filter on script names with wild cards would be useful to only display script names of a certain naming convention
over 2 years ago in GDPS 20 Delivered