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Support for REXX

Provide support for REXX
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

restful enablement of Java programs with z/OS Connect

Support the restful exposure of Java programs (CICS, IMS, Batch) in a similar way as we support Cobol and PL/I today
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 prepared statements in IMS JBP (and BMP) regions

Java applications running in an IMS JBP (or BMP) region are not able to reuse DB2 prepared statements after doing a checkpoint call by using the Transaction.checkpoint() or the Transaction.checkpoint(SaveArea) method. If you try to reuse them you ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

allow zd&t to orderly shutdown z/os on Linux reboot

when Linux reboot/shutdown is issued the emulator recognizes the signal and forces the emulator to stop immediately. Their should be a directive in the parameters file to allow the emulator to continue and let it be shutdown by SystemD service fil...
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Request to include in the GDPS monitoring functions to verify the QHA for duplicated PATH-GROUP-IDs.

The Itau bank faced a situation related to the information showed by the command "DS QD,<dev>,QHA,1". They needed to init disk volumes, but few of them failed informing that were PATH-GROUP-IDs online, the interesting thing when they checked...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. If necessary, inserting shall be prevented.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines.

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. Lines should automatically be wrapped to new lines starting with an *.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IDz Cobol Editor Column 1 to 6

In the Cobol Editor we want to have a special handling for column 1 to 6. 1) Every keystroke in column 1 to 6 should trade as entered in overwrite mode when you have any none whitespace char in column 7 to 72. 2) STRG-V with a Content fitting in c...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF to support ICSF PAUSE function

The ptf UJ04367 will stop or reduce the number of KCG0080W messages under most circumstances, but it will not completely address the ICSF PAUSE scenario. So re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF processing is required in order to completely support the I...
almost 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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