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Enhance the ITERATE macro to include a condition.

If the ITERATE macro supported conditions, every assembler program that uses ITERATE within a DO construct will be smaller and more efficient.
9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Planned for future release

Group List Support in DSSGROUP

It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

STO REG ALL

If we want to stop manually an IMS, we have to stop each MPP manually by entering STO REG command with the REGID or Jobname. In order to accelerate the process, is it possible to have a command : STO REG ALL like STO TRAN ALL; STOP DB ALL
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

support for EzNoSQL in PL/I in same level as in COBOL

because if you want to use EzNoSQL in a mainly PL/I shop
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enhance the product by implementing a strict-dynamic Content Security Policy (CSP) to improve security against script injection attacks

Enhance the product by implementing a strict-dynamic Content Security Policy (CSP) to improve security against script injection attacks => This approach leverages nonces or hashes for trusted scripts while allowing dynamically added scripts to ...
3 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 0 Planned for future release