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Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

SUBJOBUSER to support control via RACF SURROGAT profiles

The SUBJOBUSER user field feature introduced by PH35729 allows IzWS operations to specify the submission user as the value associated with SUBJOBUSER. But there is no RACF validation of what is effectively surrogate user submission once the SUBJOB...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Speedup the release of license after stopping a ZD&T instance

zD&T License server release license too slow when an instance is stopped.Shutdown takes approx,. 1 min, 20 secs. After the shutdown it takes more than 6 minutes before the license are released. In total almost 8 minutes.This could lead to that...
6 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

Check/Reject when a variable A based on a pointer initialized with the addr of a variable B is bigger than B

- a PLI V5.2 program runs smoothly but abends with S0C4 when recompiled in PLI V6.1- on analysis, the program has a poor writing, it uses a larger redefined area than the original area. This original area is used as I/O area. Presently, the compil...
6 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Generate Galasa Code from HATS Macros

In addition to generating web services from HATS macros, we'd like the option to generate Galasa code. Both are Java-based, and since very few companies are currently using the option to generate restful service files and Galasa seems to be attrac...
3 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

IMS catalog API (DFS3CATQ) sample program

The customer considers using IMS Catalog API to get DBD or ACB from user program, but no sample program is provided. DBRC API provides a sample program DSPAPSMP in the IMS.ADFSSMPL library. Could you please provide a sample program of IMS Cata...
7 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

Permit SAF keyrings to be used instead of jks files for host connection.

Currently HATS requires a jks files to be used if the host connection is secure. When the HATS application is deployed on z/OS in WAS the SAF keyrings should be used either as a default or a method to switch when deploying. This is required due to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Add support for multiline and >1024character line writes

Currently, ZOAU is limited in its ability to write to a z/OS dataset. Currently, the maximum character length for a line is 1024. Splitting a longer string into multiple lines requires multiple calls to datasets.write() since this function takes a...
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Planned for future release