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Option on the Generator to create Zoned Numeric fields as Unsigned (rather than signed)

I have an existing MF app that requires unsigned data.
over 2 years ago in Record Generator for Java 3 Future consideration

ADDI-Support for current version of Assembler

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the Assembler scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Add option to disable SLOWSTART in HSC config

If HSC is used for sending multiple packet messages, network latency is high, and application timeout is set to a low value, SLOWSTART can cause the timeout value to be reached due to packet transmission halted while awaiting TCP ACK. This became ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow maintenance of SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3

The SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3 records user logon/logoff times. This table grows and grows as users are added and deleted. There is no management of the table. I would be good if either the record for a user was deleted when other tables related to a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CICS Transaction to main program dependency/flow isn't getting established

CICS resources extract process cannot capture auto-installing modules because program definitions are commonly not defined either in CSD or CPSM. As a result of which ADDI is not establishing dependency/flow from transaction to the main program ev...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Dependent DB2 Objects Discovery

1. Pull in dependent Db2 objects that are required for Views, RI, and aliases. We currently have our own process to do this.2. If not already supported – Db2 stored procs, User defined functions and user defined data types
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

SA ISPF Dialogue Build option to support directly duilding to GDG(+1)

Hi SA Dev, In the SA ISPF dialogue 2 BUILD OPTION in the ‘Output Data Set' field:please provide support to allow user to specify the DSN(+1) for an existing GDG when building to an ACF. Customers can allocate a new DSN(+1) to an existing GDG using...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

PL/I-Editor Automatically clear Identifications when you would like to format a source

At the moment you can't format a source when you have pre-processor information for that source available. So you need to clear all identifications manually in order to run the formatter. The formatter is very important for us because eg we do all...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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