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PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Disable RULES controls locally

Hi, The RULES compilation option allows to perform compile-time checks on the proper use of data formats. We have activated the RULES compilation option to educate our developers on the proper use of data formats, and we are satisfied with it. How...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Suppress or obfuscate queryString in SMF123 records

Currently SMF123 records expose query parameters in RESTFUL requests as queryStrings. Enterprises using Z/OS Connect EE should have the option to suppress or obfuscate queryStrings in SMF123 records to both ensure that comply with GDPR / DP / PSD2...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

'DEDB Alter' may support adding segments dynamically

IMS users ask the function of 'DEDB Alter' can support to add new segments dynamically.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 3 Not under consideration

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
9 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 1 Not under consideration

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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