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ADDI: dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement

dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement, therefore the statements like the one below are not resolved: set CBLTDLI-ProcPointer to entry CBLTDLI
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Resume TPIPE auto and explicite acknowledgement support in CCI implementations of the IMS TM Resource Adapter

The IMS TM Resource Adapter supports two implementations: A message-driven bean (MDB) and a Common Client Interface (CCI) implementation. When using the CCI implementation currently the resume TPIPE auto option can't be used for callout message pr...
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Enhancing RTMC NVP collection in tpfrtmc to extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data would enable examination of the underlying distributions for better insights that simple averages would hide.

During RTMC NVP collection the tpfrtmc component could extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data, which would include the following: ECB lifetime CPU burn time Finds Files Etc. This would enable examination of the underlying distribut...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Remove the manual step to create a working directory for Remote Host Connector

For IDz v15.0.5 or v16.0.0, user need to manually create a local folder as the "working directory" before they can use Remote Host Connector. This is a very bad user experience as users no need to do so before when it still have HCE. Users will no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Policy build report improvements.

We have a single policy database that contains Sandpit systems. We would like to perform a full build of the policy database, but to have the flexibility to exclude test systems as we're not interested in these. This would significantly improve ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Action Command should have information in the SYSLOG about the command and it's executer (userid)

All action commands like CANCEL should list some information about the person, who actually enters the command.This request applies to all system commands you can send in e3270UI as well as to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). It is impo...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

zUnit: PLI-Support for the return-code (PLIRETC)

The test case editor of zUnit does not recognizes the return code for a PLI program (PLIRETC) and therefore no expected value can be specified.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Deinstallation of IBM Installaion Manager products doesn't clean up the package group directories

After deinstalloation of IBM Installaion Manager products, the package group directories are not deleted. This is the same behaviour with all Software installed by Installation Manager and therefore seems to be a Problem with the Installation Mana...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

setting default presentation of varaibles in monitor

there is no support in the debug engine for the remote debug session as you see it in MFI - there is no code to set the default presentation . You can use the memory view but thats the same as changing the presentation for each variable.
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

show load module's compiled time using CEMT

show load module's compiled time using CEMT INQUIRE PROGRAM
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration