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LPEX Editor Open Member Status

The LPEX editor should have a field to display how the member is opened. If the member is open in Edit mode, the field should say EDIT. If the member is open in View mode, the field should say VIEW. If the member is open in Browse mode, the field ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

CICS Event capture of DL/I call / command

This request is to be able to capture information from each DL/I call using the CICS EVENT mechanism.The data to be captured includes the command code, the call details and the business data.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add command for changing retention period for all selected data in one step.

Our customer like to have a command for the change of the retention period of all selected data in one step . Customer will have – when in production – up to 3000 datasets which may be necessary to change the retntion period. Manually this would t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICSPA to support COLLENGTH for TASKCNT on PROFILING report

The amount of transaction volume on our production LPAR causes this field to be displayed with exponential notation usually with an E2 or E3 suffix. For accuracy it is preferred to have a complete number for this field.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - New compilation option CALLINTERFACE(mode,list-of-entry-points)

Since Enterprise Cobol V5, the >>CALLINTERFACE directive allows to modify the type of call declared by default by the DYNAM / NODYNAM compilation option.However, it is not always possible to insert >>CALLINTERFACE directives into the s...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Transaction Routing

We are routing transactions (3270 based) and programs (CTG and CWXN based) from a TOR to AOR's. When we route a program from the TOR (active) to an AOR (in SHUTDOWN Phase) the routing program is called with DYRERROR set to 1, request rejected beca...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CARMA Enhanced Browse to resolve dependencies that are in property group

When editing/browsing an Endevor element using CARMA, we would like to have the ability to cancel out of the edit session and not have a copy of the source remain in the lower entry stage of Endevor. This would be the equivalent of an edit in that...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

CL SuperSession Leading Blanks in Tiggers

If there are leading blanks before the Tiggers they will not work, you also have to retype the Tiggers after this error, even if the Tigger is in the home position. Please correct so that leading blanks don't effect Tiggers in any position. See ca...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Mainframe Character Set (CP1027) in JDK 11

IBM Java 6 which comes along with WebSphere 7 is having support for character set: CP1027. But In Java 8 or 11 this character set support is not there. When Java 11 is used to connect Mainframe zOS DB2, sometimes its failing with the following exc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide a command to create a DB Alloc Record for a database in DBRC Recon

Provide a command to create an ALLOC record for a database in DBRC Recon dataset. Today an ALLOC record is only created when a DLI update call is issued against the database.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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