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Externalize lost locks processing progress with message

Service request opened when site was recovering from a lost locks condition. There was a 20+ minute delay from when the first region in the configuration was brought up, until the time when the last was recovered. As luck would have it, the last r...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support Cobol Report Writer syntax in RDz

Want RDz to support Cobol Report Writer syntax parsing
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

IMS Quiesce Type-2 coomand. Be able to route the command to a specific IMS Region while defined in IMS PLEX.

When IMS Type-2 QUIESCE command was attempted on a non-sharing IMS system. and supposed to be for specific region - the QUIESCE command was routed to ALL members of the PLEX.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

FIPS 140-2 for RDz Host Emulator

Add FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption capability to the host emulator within Rational Developer for System z
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Workload Switch De-allocation of Batch VSAM files

VSAM replication utilises a dedicated CICS region to make updates to VSAM files on on the target system. In the case of batch VSAM files, the apply region must have exclusive access to the VSAM files, so the files must be de-allocated before being...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

zdcor ASCII option

Customer is asking for an option on zdcor to display data in ascii for exampleZDCOR 52538800.800 TR-ASCII the default would still be EBCDICIn today World there are more and more situations where TPF could be working with data that might be in ASCI...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Auto select proper cert among multiple user certs with same key usage by looking at the certs on the card in the reader

With a previous fix, the HOD programmable interface will now select the proper cert by key usage from a list of certs for one user but when multiple user's certs are in the local key store the wrong selection is made. HOD should ensure the cert se...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

Extend z/OS Connect to work on IBM i (for RPG apps) - a single IBM Connect for Systems of Record

My client (major global bank) wants a single IBM connect solution to expose RPG (i) and COBOL (z) systems of record as REST/JSON APIs. Currently z/OS Connect is tied to the z platform - but being based on Liberty it should be readily portable to I...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Modify the CICS JSON assistant programs to generate Swagger 2.0 definitions

Modify the CICS JSON assistant programs to generate interface definitions according to the Swagger 2.0 specification (aka OpenAPI specification). Reference https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Multiple "FROM" references in WRITE statement

Many reporting programs contains sets of WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head1);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head2);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head3);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head4); to write out heading lines. It would be nice if the WRITE statement for t...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

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