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Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Force affinity to same LPAR IMS FE for IMS Connect distributed 2PC Global transactions (until implementation of RFE 35707)

Currently a distributed Synclevel 2 global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS (and RRS too) have to be on the same LPAR.This is documented in Paragraph "Global (XA) transaction with TCP/IP" of IMS Co...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

UCD passticket support for CICS

The CICS TS plugin for UCD should support usage of pass tickets for all steps, such as CICS PIPELINE SCAN.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Not able to export a copy template from template editor

From the template editor, there is no possibilityto export the copybook as it is possible using choice 7.2 on ISPF.
almost 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Import Search-results which I have exported the day before when I have to work on a search-result-list more than one day.

Import Search-results which I have exported before so I can continue opening unchanged files from this list with a double click.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

In OMPE v5.4, classic interface, having the ability to edit the Explain reports, for modifyng the text and rerun the Explain

With Omegamon for DB2 PE v5.40, with PWH configured, from classic interface, I can run Explain function of SQL text in thread active or in SQL cache. The customer requests the ability to edit EXPLAIN report, to correct the SQL query and rerun the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding a little bit of TWS to the JCL editor

TWS makes small changes to the JCL. These changes result in errors and warnings marked by the JCL editor within RDz. That way all of our JCLs are wrong and it is very easy to miss real errors in a JCL. Please add TWS variables to the syntax check ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the TPIPES

Each TPIPE control block for an IMS OTMA consumes stores of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. It has associated other control blocks also allocated at Extended Private Storage.Using 64-bit storage could be a very good enhancement.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Implement support for Enterprise PL/I data structures that pad data items aligned on byte, fullword or double word boundaries

Issue is well documented in the support case ID TS003305508. Here is an example from it: Kopio: Varjus Petteri T <petteri.t.varjus@kela.fi>; Huhtala Ahti <ahti.huhtala@kela.fi>; Laakso Tero <tero.laakso@kela.fi>; Jousmäki Timo &l...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration