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Putting z/OS Connect Designer docker image onto Docker Hub

Due to company policy, we are only allowed to download docker image from Docker Hub or gcr.io. It will take a very long time and go thru some lengthy processes to get the approval and set-up in place for pulling docker image from IBM Container Reg...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IMS database Usage using load modules as inputs

In the current IMS database Usage function, it is showing the database's name and the structure of the segments used in a given Cobol program. However, the users run this function with a load module as an input. I would like to see the IMS databas...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration

IMS V15 WADS support zHyperLink

IMS v15 WADS logging should use zHyperlink (ZHL) protocol supported by the DFSMS Media Manager I/O driver and ZHL for both reads and writes to boost performance. Background The IMS system software has exploited/relied upon the DFSMS Media Manager ...
almost 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V5+ - Possibility to encrypt the source code present in the dwarf section

The TEST(dwarf,source) option stores the source code (not the compilation listing) in the dwarf section. Moreover, it is the source code expanded after resolution of the calls of copybooks which is stored. This is useful for debugging (tracing) o...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V5+ - TEST(dwarf,source) option violates *CONTROL NOSOURCE directives

When the *CONTROL NOSOURCE / *CONTROL SOURCE directives are used in a source code, the lines present between these two directives are excluded from the compilation listing. However, if the compiler option TEST(dwarf,source) is activated, then the...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Online load of File system files should be logged by PFS

Since z/TPF software development and version control requires a non-z/TPF platform there is a requirement to maintain on that software development platform a list of programs (and versions) loaded on the z/TPF system.Before TPF41 APAR PJ25880, whi...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer – Freeform View Data Field Calculations

We would like the ability to take the Data Field(s) from any View and perform user selected Data Calculations
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Multiple ADDI instance use same SQL Server

We have 2 apps that use ADDI. We would like to use the same SQL Server VM instance for both. How do we setup our DB/instances/configuration to do this?
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support up to 100 chararcters in mapped PLI names when using XML assistant DFHSC2LS / DFHWS2LS

Due to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.2.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_wsdl2pli.html the xml assistant DFHSC2LS truncates resulting PLI names to a maximum of 31 characters. But PLI supports u...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration