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Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

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

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

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
over 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under 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

IMS Explorer - Test case - Passticket support

As moving to more secured enironment we need Passticket/one-time-password support when running a testcase in IMS explorer.
over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

MFA Support to transfer and receive files thru FTP and z/OS connections

Hi, We have a problem in transferring and receiving files thru FTP and z/OS connections in IMS Explorer when our mainframe systems are enabled with MFA. No support at all for FTP, but we can connect and transfer files using z/OS remote connection ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

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