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HoD files processed before they are full generated

Greetings, The files from HoD are processed via Docpath before all the information was store in the files by HoD. Please, make sure only files .spl with the full information are in the destination folder.
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

_BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

QoL enhancements for HoD

As a enhancement for the HOD product, we would like to have implemented the following things: Print all selected documents at the same time Flag in a different color the pdfs that has been printed/opened before Auto refresh the document list every...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

BAR file image maps in PComm; Toolbar horizontal scrolling

IBM/HCL to fix images that are used in the .bar file to not need a image home folder, but allow us to imbed the images as part of the session files so when we deploy sessions, we don’t have to worry about toolbar mapping of images to a specific fo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Accept the use of structure = ''; for defined structures

Initialization of DECLARED structures can be done with Structure = ‘’; But for DEFINED structures, one get IBM1678I Assignment of CHARACTER to STRUCTURE TYPE is invalid. This is seen by most of our developers as an impediment to the adoption of de...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Product usage information from USS

TADz also collecting usage data from USS as from z/OS
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Planned for future release

Add functionality to COPY command to only copy user data from 3270 screen and not protected field data.

When copying 3270 screen information to paste to another screen the COPY command should have an option to not copy protected fields and only copy user data fields. Ticket TS007753709 opened with support and it was suggested to submit a RFE.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting. Mark this one as important to the customer.Add additional interpolation algorithms - LINEAR, POLY2, and POLY3 – same as we do for SmartPath forecasting.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Collect zSort records, SMF_218 in IZPCA.

Currently IZPCA is not able to collect SMF_218. Could you please implement the mapping of this record type at least?
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Seperate PDF Orientation in email attachments

This RFE is related to PDF email attachments. There is a parameter in ITOM PA that sets page size and orientation. The problem is that this parameter is universal, that is affects all PDFs, no matter distribution list. We have several departments ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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