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Expand the capabilities of the Push to Client Features supported in IBM Developer for z/OS

The following link lists the currently supported configuration items that are supported with the IDz Push to Client feature. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/15.0?topic=configuration-planning-push-client-environment This is a request ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve documentation concerning parameters for various functions

There is currently no single place in the set of manuals for IZWS where all the parameters which MAY need to be set to use a particular function are listed-- for example-- functions such as dynamic critical path (critical path handling), data set ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy

Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy. The transaction code would be the last transaction that used that TPIPE.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

Migration assistance for PDS to PDSE

To replace CA PDSMAN many customers will be required to migrate from PDS to PDSE. A panel dialog that will assist them and a batch process for larger migration would assist the end users with this process
over 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Not under consideration

PL/I compiler option LISTVIEW(SOURCE) support for code coverage

In Japan, there are many banking customer who are using PL/I. Such customer does not need to know a code coverage of inside PL/I macro, which is expanded at INCLUDE statement. Because many banking customer in Japan are using SAIL asset that is pro...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 2 Not under consideration

Function to expire a transaction during execution

The current transaction expiry feature for full function transactions uses the in-queue time to decide whether to process the transaction or not. Once the transaction starts executing there is the PROCLIM value to specify a CPU limit, but no oppor...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CSNC restrict IRC Connect Retry count to 50

CICS/TS MRO current design has no limit to the number of IRC retry CONNECT requests issued by transaction CSNC. This has led to High CPU consumption by hundreds of CICS Regions trying to connect to a stalled CICS Region. It does not seem logical t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

batch Programs called through SYSIN

Kindly refer case for example of batch programs called through control sysin.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration