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Add warning messages when reaching the number of connections (ZCEE Monitoring)

the impact of z/OS connect in our company is very important and can cause a shutdown of our customers services and this can have a negative impact on our zsystems for our business line Our z/OS sub systems have already some metrics that are self m...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CPSM BATCHREP error handling.

Using program EYU9XDBC to run BATCHREP in batch. Once the program has managed to connect to CPSM a return code of 0 is always returned regardless of the outcome. I do appreciate that the request is offloaded to run in the CMAS and the output is pr...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need Capability of deploying to more than one target application region from Manage Bundle Deployment

We have Multiple LPARS and Multiple CICS Regions (200+). We ar exploring the uses of CICS Managed Bundle Deployment with CICSPLEX. We need to ability to specify more than one cics application region in the pom.xml document. Each LPAR has several e...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

When a /STO SUBSYS and subsequent /STA SUBSYS is issued, IMS has to be restarted in order to make the dep regions pick it up

The customer needs IMS to be able to start subsystems SSM members dinamically when an external subsystem is having issues. Currently, if a sick subsystem is causing problems, issuing a /STO SUBSYS on the sick subsystem and /STA SUBSYS on another S...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

SSL(ATTLSAWARE) support for PROTOCOL(IPIC) in TCPIPSERVICE

To replace the SNA connections to IPIC with external companies (different sysplexes) and secure them, we need to implement SSL.AT-TLS can save CPU, but SSL(ATTLSWARE) for TCPIPSERVICE is only available to PROTOCOL(HTTP).We request to provide SSL(A...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

AD Cross Application Service should be enabled for DB2 on z/OS

ADDI has the capability to analyze Cross Applications. Unfortunately this feature is not supported for DB2 on z/OS. We would like to have the feature implemented for DB2 on z/OS as well.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Headers needed to pass a Security scan

We need the following headers added to the Response XML for zOS Connect (these are the Secure scan findings). Similar to how they were added for the CICS hosted services. issue name-Missing "X-Content-Type-Options" header (Vul count-1)cause:: It i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Browsing the file is taking lot of time

Viewing and Browsing the sequencial file in RDz is taking lot of time.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration