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Support to JCECCARACFKS certificates on EQAPROF

In case TS012216270 we are told that the EQAPROF does not support RACF certificates with the key in PKDS (JCECCARACFKS) only JCERACFKS. I think it would be a good idea to add that support since we have customers who use a single SITE type certific...
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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

Dual Control for GDPS-LCP

To further enhance protection against an individual that has gained access to our systems (or insider) with malicious intent, it is essential to secure the ability to perform destructive actions against our safeguarded copies such as making policy...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

Upgrade zconbt to accept OpenAPI 3.0 spec input.

Upgrade the ability of the utility zconbt, to accept OpenAPI 3.0 documents, as well as Swagger 2.0 documents when creating .ara files
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

CICS Terminal Detail return all rows

The CICS Plex CICS TERMINAL DETAIL agent does not return all rows. It was designed to access the WHERE TERMID = on the query and returrn only that row. We need to return ALL ROWS. We openned case TS009532669 and lab reccomended to change this woul...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

ORF option to discard changes made during database initialization

ORF currently abends with a 'GE' status code in the apply phase, if changes are made to the database during initialization. We'd like an option in ORF to disregard these changes instead of trying to apply them. It would reduce abends and eliminate...
12 months ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Delivered
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Add font and font size preference specific to IBM RDz Data Editor

IBM RDz Data Editor should have its own font settings in its own preference. Currently, the font for the Data Editor can only be mofified with other features under Windows/Preferences/General/Appearance/Colors and Font/Basic/Text Font. If it is ch...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Delivered

Add CHANGE in FCH and DSED support for zEDC compressed datasets.

Our project recently applied zEDC compress for most of the datasets we use. After the change, jobs that use FileManager's CHANGE command in the FCH function and DSED abend.
almost 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered