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cdp needs to support xcom smf record (SMF 192)

Customer has competitiive product that supports XCOM SMF 192 record and would like to move to CDP. They need this support to be able to stop using the competitor.
7 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Not under consideration

UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
9 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

we have a large project with about 8.000 cobol sources. Trying to make software analyzer baseline crashes with java memory errors. Make it possible to create baseline for big projects

We want to make a baseline for the entire project so we can use this baseline for analysing cobol sources and do not get all problems over and over again.
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Under review

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
9 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

IMS TM Resource Adapter compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors)

We currently migrating APIs SpringBoot applications from Java version 8 to 17. Currently, we are using IBM Liberty Host and IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.7) to integrate with IMS 15.1 with Java version 8. However, we need to migrate to Java v...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

API for admin dashbord

To improve automation capability setting up, creating and managing projects that in normal case require manual intervention through the dashboard. I propose to add a api to do the same tasks through some kind of api (http, config-file or cli) to b...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

GDPS Metro Enhancement

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over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration