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Allow defined allocate in AREA

Since many releases, Enterprise PL/I allows the allocation of defined amounts of heap using the "ALLOCATE" builtin, to quote the manual: ALLOCATE allocates storage of size n in heap storage and returns the pointer to the allocated storage. It woul...
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Old JRE in Personal Communications

Personal Communications v12.x lays down Java JRE 8.0.0 as a convenience, but there is no mechanism to maintain this version to current standards. JRE installation must be optional during the install (and actually work correctly to not install it i...
about 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Delivered

Implement zTPFDF connector for Java/Kafka Producer enhancement

We would like to take advantage of the Java/Kafka support on zTPF. The current implementation, MQ local queues are used as the guaranteed delivery mechanism. With our experience with MQ local queues, valuable system resources are required to suppo...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CEX will block RACF sign on attempts after repeated failures for logon id revoked

We have remote devices that execute a programmatic script to issue a logon attempt via IMS Connect. Many times these IDs have been revoked or are obsolete. When the script receives a RACF failure, the signon attempt will be continually retried (at...
over 2 years ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

menue manager invocation status until result is sent back, is missing for users

After invoking an action through menu manager, the user does not get any feedback if IDz accepted the request and tends to invoke the same action twice. We need a way to inform user that the request is in progress.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support enhanced security when authenticating users with SAF Security API

The current SAF Security API does not support specifying the APPLID for the PlatformUser.authenticate method. Supporting the __passwd_applid() function will allow Program Control security rules to be utilzied. See documentation: https://www.ibm.co...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

URT license tracking for Open XLC/C++ v17

AIX XLC/C++ licenses purchased from IBM are user based (shared or named). The external auditors appointed by IBM, request/collect several times per year the URT statistics (supported until XLC/C++ v16) to check license compliancy. With Open XlC/C+...
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Add support of LIKE in the ENTRY declaration (to reuse the structure of the data declaration)

Today changes in the parameters to an external entry must always be coded twice, in the entry declaration as well as in the data declaration. To avoid this redundancy we would like to have LIKE available to use in the entry declaration, so that we...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

add an IQIBUTIL "SYNC" type function

add function to delete target data set members that do not exist in the source data set.
about 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

INIT attribute on the %DCL statement

Similarly to the DECLARE statement, the %DECLARE statement should accept an INIT attribute.
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

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