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Log user, who in the E3270UI System Programmer's Toolkit gives what system commands

The E3270UI already logs z/OS and CICS commands in the E3270UI SYSPRINT DD when commands are given using the E3270UI workspaces. However the System Programmers Toolkit does not, this means that system commands when give via the System Programmer's...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced Auto-Formatting Options for COBOL Editor

We'd like to have more options to influence the syntax-formatter in COBOL editor. At the moment there are few options for intention on IF oder WHEN etc... I wish some more options: 1) Intention for WHEN relative to EVALUATE2) Intention for the tex...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Future consideration

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support without having application to handle the addition RFH V2 header

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support(OA62795) is rely on addition RFH V2 header. With feature enabled, either corresponding application needs to be enhanced to handle the addition header or q ueue definitions has to change to propctl=none. The requiremen...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

FTP File Transfer via CICS Explorer

We use ftp file transfer from local pc to z/os environment in daily work and instead of using another product, we want to able to do it via CICS Explorer.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

RDz: Setting .hce defaults before the file is created

We run RDz using a virtual server that all users start their instances of RDz from. When a user creates a new connection the emulator defaults to use unsecure telnet on port 23 and these settings are saved in the workspace .hce file. We'd like an ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Endpoint Descriptor processing and add new ept.xml Elements to change auto-undeploy error processing - adding auto-redeploy.

An endpoint descriptor is automatically undeployed when the number of consecutive errors is greater than the number of connections defined in the ept.xml. Once the system auto-undeploys the endpoint descriptor, it has to be manually re-deployed (v...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

improve UX of credential dialogs for linux/zos they are very similar

Make more visible / aparant to the user which credentials are you asking for, for example: replace the gray hint of User ID field from "Enter user ID" to "root" or "ibmuser" based on the type of credentials. Because there are two types of credenti...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Enhance IRLM to detect cross-subsystem deadlocks

Today the Internal Resource Lock Manager (IRLM) of IMS is not able to communicate with the IRLM of DB2. This causes cross-subsystem deadlock situations not to be detected and not to be resolved. Because such cross-subsystem deadlocks could not be ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

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