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PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement

IBM shipped out of box rules include a rule called EXEC SQL: Check the value of SQLCODE after an EXEC SQL statement for Cobol Application language.Where as PL/I does not have that rule.AS per suggestion from Steve Spirk this can be raised as an RFE
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

In IMS Recovery Expert, if there is no quiet time, show least busy times.

Currently, IMS Recovery Expert only shows quiet times when the database does not have any inflight Units of Work. When looking at recovery scenarios with Cyber Vault situations, we may have periods of time that we will need to recover to where the...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Add additional report to view the unused variables in a program

Is it possible to see the unused variables in the program? Variables which are just declared and never used in the program. Currently developer can be able to see the unused procs in the program in report "unused routines within program".
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS java/lang/OutOfMemoryError Out Of Memory OOM

When too many Operations are chosen, the job executing DFHWS2LS gets error message "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError"The problem is that it doesn't take very many operations to be "too many". Also, there is not guidance on how many operations can be inc...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IDz Table views to have filters directly in column and provide search for tables

Direct filters on columns will provide quick results which sometimes is what's only needed. Same with the ability to quickly search a Table.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

JVM profile - Extend support to include Environment/System Variables

Currently the JVM profile supports a limited set of substitution variables. We would like to expand it to include any environment variable or system variable.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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