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IMS/DB need to be processed in JCLs

Please see all details in PMR 40939,110,846
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Find changed lines in LPEX EDITOR

LPEX EDITOR automatically flags changes lines with a purple mark on the left of the line.After making some changes to my program, I want to review all of them before saving the file.Is there a way to have a list of all the current changes, or at l...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Make available additional source code information, used at compilation, in load module

We'd request that the location of the source code that was used during program compilation be made discoverable or available within the load module. For our purposes this would extend to COBOL, C/C++, PL/I, Assembler, Java. Our product team is req...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic ICVR setting if using Debug Tool

Increase or disable ICVR (runaway task) for transactions running under Debug Tool.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS.

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS. Currently, the job log only show what's in JES job log which required extra step to do command 'J' in IzWS to see JCL Directive of the Fetch Member. 'J' c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Not under consideration

Consideration of all IMS syntaxes

We found following an incident on the tool that some syntaxes, such as CEETLDI, in IMS calls were not supported by the tool. Only the CBLTLDI syntax was supported by the tool. I found this IBM documentation for information :https://www.ibm.com/sup...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow TCPIPService definition in CICS to be AT-TLS Aware (Retrofit from CICSTS V53)

I would like CICSTS v51 to have retro-fitted from CICSTS v53 the AT-TLS aware mode :- AT-TLS Aware mode is where the address space issues an AT-TLS calls to query a socket for its AT-TLS status. The address space can access items such as the clien...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Universal compare for many types of data

This RFE is about an universal compare. Something like "select first item" and "select second item" and when both are selected a compare is started comparing this two items.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration