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Ne plus générer de point à la fin des EXEC / END-EXEC

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over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

BSD - Alimentation d'une Structure Etat avec une source "complexe"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NUMERO............: 831146 ( CGI 1106 ) TYPE..............: V DEMANDE D'EVOLUTION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLARER GRAVITE...........: P SEVERITE 2 ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

SPOC Audit Trail feature should take Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx - Resubmit of Declined RFE 35661

It would result useful and also safe to have SPOC Audit Trail feature automatically read Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx instead of requesting user to specify it in Panel CSLUPRA .In addition to ensure a more practical usage ...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

REPOSITION Option on the READ Statement

Add the ability to reposition the current record pointer within a sequential dataset. Go back to the beginning of a dataset without closing it and re-opening it: READ FILE (MYFILE) INTO (MYLAYOUT) REPOSITION(1) Additionally, be able to reposition ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

EMAIL Built-in Function

Sending SMTP email natively from a PL/I program would be handy. CALL EMAIL(FROM,TO,SUBJECT,BODY,BODY_FORMAT,ATTACHMENT(S)); BODY_FORMAT=HTML, RTF, TEXT. Perhaps for the body argument, be flexible and allow quoted text, a variable name or a DD name...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for HOD-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 6 Not under consideration

Can RDz suppport Microfocus APS COBOL?

RDz Editor currently cannot support parsing of APS-Cobol from microfocus, Users application are written in APS COBOL, which can get very limited benefit for using RDz. All smart editing features are disabled.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

CBAC enhancement to improve product integration with CICS

The current CBAC implementation requires additional process to ensure resource integrity between CICS CSD and CBAC CNTL file.
over 8 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Install and activate new CICS VR server without needing to IPL z/OS

A new install of CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS Version 5 Release 2 requires a z/OS IPL to activate the CICSVR server address space. Please provide a CICSVR server activation process that can pick up dynamic LPALIB changes for a new install that does...
over 8 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration