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LPEX line folding also in "new" editors such as PL/1 and JCL

In the LPEX editor it's possible to search and filter all lines which doesn't contain some specific characters. The user can then find relevant line, and expand code again. To my knowledge this functionality doesn't exists in PL/1 and Cobol editor...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

[Tous clients]Incoherence sur la vue compare a la validation des templates d ecart isocode

Lors de la validation de la migration pour un programme, on ouvre une fenetre de comparateur entre le genere a l'image de Pacbase et le genere de RPP. Cette vue doit montrer les ecarts de code entre les 2 versions du programmes et elle devrait etr...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

CLP(Command Line Processing) on IMS

CLP is written in below IMS V13 information center.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/SSEPH2_13.1.0/com.ibm.ims13.doc.apg/ims_dynamicsqlapp.htm But, it's not really supported. We need CLP on USS like DB2 CLP.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Nested coloring of if/else, do and other similar statements

In ISPF editor there is a capability where it's possible to get for instance if/else statements colored based on level, it would be nice if this feature could also be enabled in RDz.I know that when the parser works, it can highlight start/end bas...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

ProvideTS51 Supplemental Data Areas Manual for support for existing user written CICS programs

After upgrading from CICS TS41 to TS51, some of my applications are abending. Some of the data areas have moved. We wrote these applications in earlier versions with the supplemental data areas manual was available. I cannot maintain these program...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Toolkit Custom Dataset Handler

We have a 'custom dataset handler' plugin for our TPF Toolkit at Amadeus. It reads the program and version in the object file and therefore locates the correct source file in the Folder that is given. It handles a format like below (for program ST...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

ESB for Cics Liberty

I didn't found something for the ESB so I made this RFE in the CIcs Queue. We provide a SOA Environment with an Enterprise Service Bus an ODM and an Process Engine (not from IBM). In this Environment we face one big problem and this is the staging...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG bidirectional support

This requirement is raised on behalf of ICBC. They raised this requirement in 2014 CICS China group meeting. They want to try CTG as gateway. It is not only request from client via CTG into CICS TS, it is also request from CICS TS via CTG to other...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

capability to know workload in target region group for workload flow control

When target region group doesn't have the capability to run more workload. Customer wants a routing failure when routing from TOR to AOR.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Generate PA report in distributed platform

User want to download CICS SMF data to linux system and run PA report generation in linux system
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration