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DB2 Comment -- colors

In the PDP Editor, I would like to be able to configure the color of DB2 comments. In the attached image, you'll see the DB2 comments in red boxes. They look like all of the other code in working storage. Can -- be recognized and highlighted?
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Future consideration

Require Domain Specific DNS server support

The current DNS support defines a primary/secondary DNS server for name resolution. We have a requirement to be able to user our default DNS servers, but for specific Domain Names we need to access our customers DNS server for name resolution. The...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Change/increase MAXTP for IMS/TMEMBERs dynamically

Currently, to change the global limit for MAXTP or an individual TMEMBER limit, we need to edit the DFSYDT* members of the PROCLIB and recycle the IMS.
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Provide capability to recover JES2 buffers other than TGS (SPOOL)

Provide flexible code to support monitoring and recovery of JES2 buffers similar to TGS (SPOOL).
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

INGQRY/AOCQRY was not available for MTR resources

INGQRY/ING$QRY delivers attributes of an APL resource.No INGQRY/AOCQRY was available for MTR resources.
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Change/increase MAXSOC for IMS Connect dynamically

The total number of sockets that IMS Connect supports across all TCP/IP ports at the same time is set by the MAXSOC parameter in the TCPIP configuration statement of the IMS Connect configuration member. If the number of sockets reaches the maximu...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Update 3270 interrupt handling (CCP4) to close security loopholes

When using a 3270 subchannel that had previously been used with another application, and that session had not been logged-off (LOGO), the new session will still be logged-on to that application. When CCP4 (in CLOA) detects an unsolicited device en...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Provide user exit in 3270 COMM SOURCE to handle LOGI security

Provide a user exit in the 3270 comm source package that will enter a customer-written program to display a sign-on screen for a user to enter credentials. The user exit will be responsible to display a secure 3270 welcome screen and to perform au...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Have the Serverdata created by the RPDATPRT EXEC in CSV format

Would like to have the Serverdata file created by the Rpdatprt exec to be stored in CSV format. We use this data for healthcheck purposes and need CSV format to upload the data into the HC tool we use.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Future consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

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