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add a simulation mode during image deployment

add a simulation mode during the image deployment in order to have the list of deployed volumes
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Better control of redefinitions of entities in project hierarchy

In our organisation, we want to forbid the redefinition of an entity in the hierarchy of projects (entities of same name in the same tree of projects). This was a key feature of Pacbase to allow the administrator to forbid such redefinitions. To d...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Workload algorithm enhancement

Customers need IBM to develop an enhancement to the present CPSM Algorithm in order to save MLC (monthly license charge). The current CPSM solution provides workload balancing which dynamically routes transactions among a set of target regions (AO...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add capability to copy projects with their data from one system to another

The build takes a while for our projects and IBM suggested to add more build server machines (we use virtual servers) to allow multiple project to be build at the same time. The Callgraph update process however always run on the batch server which...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

JAVA NEW FUNCTION TO ENABLE USERS TO OVERRIDE DATABASENAME TO CHANGE THE CONNECTION

In order to override a PSBNAME to change the connection, an application would use the HybridDataSource class that allows the parameter of a IMSConnectionSpec to set a new databaseName. If a connection has been obtained previously, however, this do...
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Have C compile optionally use non deprecated instruction BALR and use BASR

Today if I want to call an assembler program from C it uses BALR. This is deprecated, and I need special code to support it. The compiler needs an option to say "use Branch and save (BASR) instead of BALR"
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 8 Not under consideration

Type 4 DB2 driver compatability in CICS OSGI JVM server

Support Type 4 DB2 drivers from OSGI JVM's also address the integrity issues, commit and roll back
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve zVM component to track zVM Memory Usage

Today we have both IzPCA components for the zVM Installed (VMACCT and VMPRF). Anyway, the tables included in these components does not provide fields to track zVM memory usage, trends or bottlenecks. Please add fields to the tables in the zVM comp...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Data access layer(Both File and DB2)

Data access layer (Both File and DB2) needs to be supported.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Change CEOT security so read just displays (no fields changeable)

Would like CICS CEOT transaction to have display only fields (no changeable fields) if read access is given to CEOT and have the changeable fields if update access is given to CEOT.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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