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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

External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml

Currently securing API/service access is managed within server.xml. This takes management of security away from our security team and into the hands of systems teams having to maintain and manage the access for every individual API or service. the...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow JSON(ENCODING()) to accept CCSID

Recently implemented compiler option JSON(ENCODING(EBCDIC)) only supports the current codepage. We use code page 037 by default. However, the JSON we work with needs to be 1047 due to interactions with other tools. The square brackets are especial...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 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

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

Dynamic Workload Distribution of IPIC traffic from zCEE to CICS

We need to be able to distribute to Multiple CICS Router regions.. Round-Robin would be sufficient.We use Supportpac CA1T for this functionality, in CICS TG and think that would be a great addition to zCEE.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

ITOM Print to Dataset

In these days, most of printing need to be made to datasets for subsequent delivery , and not for printers. This is a facility that all ITOM users mention and request. The actual processes only permits to print to spool when using ISPF and to spoo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 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...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 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 ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Command to display how an APPLDEF is defined

Hello, Some days ago rised up the need to display the current definition of an APPLDEF and we asked it in a Case. It seems that it is not possible to give a command to display it. It would be very useful to have this command to monitorize it and d...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered