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    Allow JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL to be set on or off at runtime

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL ON/OFF It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. The WITH DETAIL phrase displays too many messages in job output. Many of the messages are expected conditions for many...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Support tolerant reader principle with CICS web services

    In various systems the tolerant reader principle as specified by Postel's Law is used as a design principle. Currently CICS will not accept items which are not specified in the current schema of a web service.Please provide a function or parameter...
    over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Be able to associate an UDF prototype with a COBOL program declaring a RETURNING clause

    Hi, A User Defined Function prototype is generally intended to be associated with a COBOL User Defined Function. However, it is also possible to associate it with a routine described in an other programming language, particularly a C routine. ...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Add support for a RETURNING phrase for ENTRY statement

    Hi, The ENTRY statement should provide a RETURNING clause that behaves similarly to the same clause used in the PROCEDURE DIVISION RETURNING declaration. This assumes that the currently existing restrictions on the combination of PROCEDURE DIVSION...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow using regular expression matching in system/application policy/event filtering

    Allowing the use of regular expression matching in all types of policy/event filtering rules would significantly enhance the ability to create filtering criteria specific to targeted work.
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

    We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
    over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    CPSM - Must be able to recover isolated CMAS without restarting address spaces

    Currently, whenever a CMAS becomes isolated for whatever reason it is not possible to restore ("un-isolate") the CMAS without restarting one or more address spaces. Similar situations occur whenever a CMAS/CMAS link (MRO) fails for any reason. Rec...
    over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

    I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
    almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    SIT Parm to set USER IDLE timeout value which can work with both RACF and AFC2 prodcuts

    With the current process, we need to follow two separate lengthy processes(RACF and ACF2) to lock/logoff the user session after a specific amount IDLE time. It would be very helpful if IBM can provide a SIT Parm like below to control the timeout v...
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

    The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
    almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

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