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Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Planned for future release

Evolution of occurs numbers in program IMS DB import

The same like in the PMR.We have an issue with the occurs numbers in program IMS DB report. This is a consequences of the counting of every programs.After discussion with AD Architect, we have a solution by adding two columns : inner occurs (just ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Extracting resource definitions when the MP CMAS is inactive

regarding technote 1497558 and RFE 25860we need to inqire resource definitions via API (EXEC CPSM GET OBJECT) in the time when MP CMAS is down => only read access, no update
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable environment detection to control INCLUDE/EXCLUDE logic

Advanced Allocation Management should provide a mechanism to detect what environment phase a current dataset is in to allow for different selection logic. Common environments are ACS, Allocation, Extend, EOV and Unallocate.
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0

Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

Extract call graph programs in hierarchical formats for better readability/analysis

In certain situations if the driver program having nested calls (from level0 … to .. level10 for example), then as a user it is good to have all these programs listed in the proper hierarchical format that would render easy understanding and bette...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

_BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Enhance NV WINDOW command to return selected data back to caller

Hi NV development, Please enhance NV WINDOW/CNME1505 to return user selected data on the screen back to the caller either in a task global variable or other means. We do not want to develop a VIEW panel for every Exec we write. We would like to le...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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