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Resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL is a group variable

We have found that ADDI doesn't resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL ( Batch, CICS ) is a group variable.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IDz 15 capability reduction configuration switch

Similarly to the option -DdisablePersonalizationQuestionnaire=true we need an option like -DdisableCapabilityConfiguration=true to disable the new functionality in IDz 15 that configures which capabilities are enabled when the workbench is started.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow CL/Supersesson to use fully qualifier VTAM APPL names

I would like to define VTAM applications on my Supersession menus to use the fully qualified name if needed if name conflicts can't be resolved.
almost 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Expose MQ API options in CICS aux trace

We constantly find ourselves trying to debug MQ related activity in CICS. Many of these issue relate to applications setting MQ options incorrectly, and this happens many times unbeknownst to them. CICS sysprogs also many time do not have access t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CLEANUP.RECON should clean up bad/orphan records

Please update the DBRC command CLEANUP.RECON to delete bad and orphan records
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add "Toggle Commnet" to REXX editor

In COBOL editor, in SQL editor, in LPEX editor there is an option to mark the line as comment. In REXX editor, there is no such option. It is very common to mark text and comment it. Or to comment a single line by right click and choose "Toggle Co...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to Suspend a Timer Across IPLs

It would be appreciated if we can have ability to suspend a timer and keep that timer suspended across IPLs.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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