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GDPS Design Council and the z/OS Container Council to transform the GDPS Control LPARs to either a Secure Services Container

Many larger customers and even smaller customers have more GDPS control LPARs than they have actual z/OS application LPARs. (AmEx – 20 GDPS LPARs for Global Mirror). The amount of control LPARs then have be kept current with z/OS maintenance, secu...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

IMS client TMRA version in CEX log

We would like to have IMS client TMRA version in IMS connect CEX log.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

CEMT TSModel SET command

Ability to do a CEMT SET TSModel to change the Expiry or Prefix.Also same in WUI and CICS Explorer. This would allow to do dynamic change, rather than CEDA ALTER and CEDA Install.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Identify unused variables at 01 level with no subordinates

In IDz if I right click in the source code of a Cobol program and choose Refactor/Identify Unused variables, it doesn't identify those that are not at an 01 level.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Export in CSV of Control-M components

It is not possible to export the Control-M plan in CSV or Excel format Our need is to have two possible exports (CSV or Excel), this can be on the same file with two tabs:- Downstream links with the list of Jobs and their successors- Upstream link...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Data Flow to include 88-clauses

The data flow tools don't measure the data flow for 88-clauses of variables although even the compiled assembler listing is identical. We expect the data flow also to handle 88-clauses as if they are a specific value of the main variable.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Add support in URIMAP for hostname with underscore

URIMAP resource definitions do not allow for hostname values that contain an underscore character. This makes CICS unable to interact with some remote services, just because of a naming restriction. Also, this behavior seems inconsistent with an u...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

READQ TS with CicsExplorer

Today when right-clicking a TS-Queue in CicsExplorer I can select the actions 'Open', 'Delete' or 'Copy'. I would be very useful if there were an action 'Readq' (like CECI READQ), to show the content of a TS-Queue item.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Manual resolution for COBOL programs when there are multiple PDS members having the same name in the COBOL source as PROGRAM-ID

For an ordinary COBOL compiler in z/OS, there can be mismatch between member name in the PDS and program name (PROGRAM-ID name) in the source. Like in our case we have have 4 programs that are:PDS member name is PROG1 and PROGRAM-ID name PROG0PDS ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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