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ODBM must be downward compatible between code and release levels

Our customers use ODBM which is a common service layer component servicing multiple IMS target systems. Currently if one of the target IMS systems is migrated to a new release and ODBM is not at that point migrated we lose access to the IMS system...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

DFHAC2236 does not appear when CICS webservice transaction abends.

Right now, when a CICS webservice abends only message DFHSR0001 is generated. In order to maintain monitoring and accounting mechanisms it would be nice to have message DFHAC2236 in CICS LOG.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession needs to support TLS

When PAGENT is enabled CL/Supersession does not support TLS
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Be able to change margins in PCOMM

We have users that are copying and pasting text to/from an CICS-application, but the almost missing margins make it harder. The margins are not always that small, it seems to happen with text. An example is the system log in SDSF in z/OS. Only the...
5 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Data of DFHPI0715 message are not correct

When CEMT P PIPE SCAN command ends, the following message is issued: DFHPI0715 I 05/23/2018 15:20:26 CICSPA01 CHGMAN PIPELINE PIPEPROH explicit scan has completed. Number of wsbind files found in the WSDIR directory: 002493. Number of WEBSERVICEs ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Liberty Profile support on zAPM Connect

zAPM is commonly deployed in our environment for end-to-end transaction tracking from frontend to mainframe application including CICS & MQ related. However currently there is no support for JAVA application in CICS Liberty Profile which limit...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Future consideration

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