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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...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 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

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

CICS Explorer: Add view for BRFACIL Operations Table

Hi, I need an operations view in CICS Explorer for the BRFACIL table. I don't currently have visibility into bridge facilities view the Explorer. The WUI provides this view but I want to view it from the Explorer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 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

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

Enhance Fault Analyzer analysis of CICS SVC dumps to include all types of registers in Kernel Error Data

CICS Kernel Error Data contains the Vector Registers at the time of the error. IPCS VERBX DFHPD### 'KE' provides all the following General Purpose RegistersAccess Registers Floating Point Registers Vector Registers However Fault Analyzer ISP...
12 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Update code to allow logs in /CandleHome/kqi/logs directory to be written with different permissions

By default, the logs being produced under /CandleHome/kqi/logs by the Java process started by the IBM Integration Bus monitoring agent are being written with permission bit 666. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code ...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 1 Delivered

Add zAPM tracking for z/Os Connect EE OAS3 version

zAPM tracking is supported in z/OS Connect EE OAS2, but not the OAS3 version which means we will lose the ability to track zCEE flows into CICS if we use APIs developed and deployed for the new version. This has also been raised at the zCEE design...
12 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Allow cicstags.yaml code to exclude DFHHC0801W for CICS_CAT3_CONFIGURATION

After upgrading to CICS TS 6.1 these messages would come out in the JESMSGLOG every 30 minutes when the zOS health checker runs: +DFHHC0801W CICSX0 Transaction CESF does not invoke program DFHSFP. +DFHHC0801W CICSX0 Transaction CESL does not invok...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered