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API to Return RACF Custom Fields

Capability similar to the Call ‘CBLTDLI' USING AUTH I/O_PCB I/O_AREA API to view a signed on user's additional RACF details from the segments that are defined to that Userid most specially the RACF Custom Fields that are defined for that user. Cur...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Not under consideration

field containing CVTSNAME in log record x'56FA'

we need a new field in record x'56FA'.this field should contain value CVTSNAME (euqal to field ST4500_OSNAME in record x'4500')
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration