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Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

AT-TLS Support for Problem Determination Tools

IBM Problem Determination Tools Studio Plugin for File/Manager, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool currently does not support TLS policies through Communication Server AT-TLS. This RFE is to add an enhancement to the Eclipse Client Plug-ins to be able to ...
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Please update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds

The current implementation only allows hour-mins-secs to be collected in SMF123. We would like to get milliseconds into the report.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

No charge 'try before you buy' edition of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

Many existing CICS Transaction Server customers would like to be able to 'try before they buy' the latest features and functions of the latest CICS Transaction Server releases, before they commit to a production upgrade. A 'try before you buy' edi...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 16 Delivered

Support ELSE for IF on Function/Subfunction level

Within RPP it is possible to Create Function/Subfunction with Conditions IT, DW, DU. It is not possible to get an ELSE for the IT construct in current release (9.1.2). Request is to include functionality that will create IT ELSE construct as in Pa...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Provide encrypting find/file databases similar to z/TPFDF encryption

As PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements become more and more stringent, it will be as important to encrypt traditional Find/File databases as much as z/TPFDF databases. IBM already provides the built-in ability to encrypt/decrypt through database defin...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD Security

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: sir_mc_henrySubmitters Company: Credit Suisse PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD SecurityHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: GDPS - CommonCurrent Status: IntialClosed Status: Se...
almost 9 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

zUnit default creates an unnecessary TestCase

When you generate a Test Case there is always a TEST1 tase case created. This may seem logical but in cases where a recording will be made from CICS or IMS or batch, the default test case is a hindrance as the import will always create it's own te...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

improve performance for large projects by days during MAKE request for API resolution (HDI) step

Currently our project MAKE takes days to complete. This is due to AD build process calling the API resolution (HDI - Hogan Discovery Interface from DXC) for each source element in the project even if it has not changed. This takes us about 58 hour...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

enhancement to ZOSConnect APi call monitor

It is very difficult to troubleshoot API issues in ZOS Connect. You can set the trace level high and see some information in trace.log but trace.log is not easily readable. It would be great to see something user friendly on monitoring API calls a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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