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CJSA attached after CICS shutdown initiated

The Liberty Server in CICS still accepts incoming requests after the CICS shutdown has been initiated (indicated by message DFHTM1715) because the JVM has not closed the port immediately. But the CJSA transaction cannot be attached as it is define...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide support for http strict transport security

To secure web communication http strict transport security has been developed. Please provide a way to implement this for a TCPIPSERVICE by a parameter
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Configuration Manager - provide a variable for the Linkage Editor module or hard code exec PGM=HEWLH096

By default, when running Configuration Manager, it calls the IEWL Linkage Editor module. We would like an enhancement to Configuration Manager where a variable is provided for the Linkage Editor module so that you can set it to something else such...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

2fa access to DWC or RestAPI

Actually, the user must identify himself with an userid/password. To enhance the security and make it easier for the lambda user, We have the need being able to use either 2FA or Certificate-based logons to the web-interface of Dynamic Workload Co...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Timeout HA IPIC connection to CICS

Current IPIC connections to CICS cannot be timed out. In case of outage of a z/OS Connect instance on the same LPAR, the load can only be processed by z/OS Connect and CICS (IPIC connections) on the other LPAR. We want to remove LPAR-specific depe...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

SA Operations REST server & z/OSMF coexistence

We want to run the SA Operations REST server on the same WLP instance as the z/OSMF but this is not possible since one requires the feature servlet-4.0 and the other the servlet-3.1, both incompatible and therefore not being able to coexist in the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 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

Simplified JSON structures when generating bottom-up services from CICS channel applications

The JSON Request and Response structures created for a CICS Channel Service contain nesting levels that complicate the API interface and appear to have little use.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

DBCS support with SDF

SDF function is important user interface of Z SA.However important messages sent to the focal are garbled only after the session disconnects between the target and the focal.DBCS messages should be displayed correctly when sending after reconnection.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

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