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    CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

    When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

    Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
    almost 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

    Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

    Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

    Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
    over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Provide AT-TLS Support for EKMF Web

    A recent pen test by IBM XForce performed on our z/OS systems identified a vulnerability where the TCP port used by EKMF was not using https. In attempting to remediate this condition it was discovered that secure https browser access to EKMF-Web ...
    almost 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

    QRadar/SIEM integration

    EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
    about 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

    EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

    Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
    over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

    Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

    When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

    Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

    Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

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