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Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Need Capability of deploying to more than one target application region from Manage Bundle Deployment

We have Multiple LPARS and Multiple CICS Regions (200+). We ar exploring the uses of CICS Managed Bundle Deployment with CICSPLEX. We need to ability to specify more than one cics application region in the pom.xml document. Each LPAR has several e...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Headers needed to pass a Security scan

We need the following headers added to the Response XML for zOS Connect (these are the Secure scan findings). Similar to how they were added for the CICS hosted services. issue name-Missing "X-Content-Type-Options" header (Vul count-1)cause:: It i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Create Volumes that can grow Dynamically in zD&T

Currently, allocating a Volume in the zD&T implementation means creating a FULL SIZE Volume at initial allocation. This can create pressure on the User to allocate "up front" a LOT of space even though this space will not be needed right away....
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Ability to debug EGL web services running on WAS

Currently it is not possible to debug an EGL web service which is running on a WAS. The only possible way to debug such a service is to write a (small) client which calls that service anddebug it that way. In that way you are however not testing t...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Not under consideration

Transaction Userid should be used for the authorization of Commands submitted by MPP Pgm through CSLOMCMD or REXX SPOC API

Currently the Userid used to submit a Command through CSLOMCMD Macro used by a AOP Program that runs in a MPP within the processing of a Transaction is the MPP Region Userid and not the Userid of the User that submitted the Transaction.IMS should ...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 should use zIIP processor

The Enterprise COBOL Compiler Version 6 (and also V5) use much more CPU Resources than Version 4.Not only 12 Percent, but Factor 12.We need 12 times more CPU for compiling than in the older versions.Some parts of this workload should be zIIP-enabl...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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