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IBM Explorer for zos (Aqua) - Host Connection Emulator

We are rolling out Eclipse tooling for our developers. RDz with RTC are the tools for them. For sys progs and ops engineers we position IBM Explorer for z/OS (Aqua). Since we cannot offer all functionality in the tools, we do need to use 3270 scre...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

DEDB initialzation with DBD defintion in case of no SDEP

With PMR 12291, IBM PMR asks us why we allocate 37 times oversize compare to the necessary size for the reloaded ADS and also calculates the exact required size x'DD388000' for this DEDB. Then even the customer specifies unreasonable size, IMS DED...
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 2 Not under consideration

Variable record hold wait queue depth

today there is a single wait queue threshold depth for all addresses. We have our value set to 100. we have 10 or so databases for which exceeding the limit of 100 is considered normal. We would like to have a variable limit, that is based on the ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

When set program or install resources, CICS Explorer can go onto the next region without stopping if failure occurs

When using CICS Explorer to set new program or install new resources, it currently stops at the failure region. It should be able to go onto the next region without stopping.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

DebugToole: Suppressed Copybooks in Cobol Editor

In the Debug Editor, the line number is a kind of displacement, so that a suppressed Copybook affects the line number.In the Cobol Editor the line number is counting up one by one, so that the lines of the suppressed Copybook doesn't matter. We wo...
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

HOD 12 removed the 'go hod' menu where HOD server is configued, started, stopped, monitored and other functions

When HOD 12 was installed on AS/400 system, it was noticed that the 'go hod' menu was not longer available. This is a major function for the iSeries admins that was removed and no announce that it would be removed. This menu was in previous versio...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement to CICS V5.2 (retrofit from CICS V5.3)

Retrofit to CICS V5.2 the DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement that has been added to CICS V5.3 which allows copying of a single resource definition from one group to another opposed to having to copy the entire group..
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Availability of EGL Grammar

RBDe itself does not come with any feature to automate static code analysis for EGL, which is an extremely important feature. At a minimum, EGL grammar can be made available for customers, whereby they can explore options to use it with open sourc...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Enable OpenSSL functionality when CEX Card is not installed

Allow HTTPS, FTPS, SSL connections to TPF when the Crypto Express Card is not defined as an accelerator.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable I-stream specific SMP entry routing by message prefix ZIS1.

Provide a method to allow the TPF operator to direct SMP Z-entries to a specific named I-stream.This might be implemented by using a message prefix i.e. ZIS1.ZDECB OLD ALL If the user specified i-stream 0 (zero) then TPF should schedule the entry ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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