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Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Add batch job (JCL) function to create web service and .SAR file in z/OS connect for IMS.

Enhance z/OS Connect for IMS by using batch job to create web service and .sar file . For example like CICS does . (BAQLS2JS) submit JCL job to create service and file . The current environment might have lots of applications need to publish as AP...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Connect to remote Database

Provide system option to define connection to a remote database service, exposed only as an option for programs within the scope of an Application definition. Implemented using lightweight TCP/IP to a datasource, including IMS and DB2, capturing t...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICSPLEX Systems Manager (CPSM) Web User Interface (WUI) Security for Shutdown of Regions

Shutting down an LMAS (a cics region) via the WMAS (Web User Interface CICS Region) , no Userid is captured in logs to say who shutdown the CICS region. The default User ID of the CICS region being shut down is captured in the logs. Audit requirem...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

zCEE to have an option for a SAF call to check if the authenticated user was authorised to invoke a service

Client would prefer that zCEE did a SAF call to check if the authenticated user was authorised instead of using the RACF groups referenced in server.xml
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add information messages to support DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself)

According to the DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself *) programmers should avoid or reduce redundancy in an entire program or business application. We think that the compiler and/or optimizer could detect such redundancy in a single source and wo...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add DISP sub parameter options for CICS TDQ dynamic allocation

When defining a dynamically allocated CICS Extra Partition Transient Data Queue for output using dynamic allocation, the documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=resources-tdqueue-attributes indicates three options are availa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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