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VsamDB support by CICS on z/OS

I am interested in the VsamDB functionality allowing to store documents in bson / json format. This function is already available in zos v2.4. I want to use it from a CICS cobol or assembler program. How soon can this function be supported by CICS?
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Program Type in results should be accurate

If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Wildcard in ADDTRAN TRANGRP

The ability to ADDTRAN generic TRANID to a CICSPLEX/SM TRANGRP rather than coding more individual TRANID.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Continue commenting when inserting a line break within a comment

Hi IBM, when you edit a comment in a COBOL source in the COBOL editor and you hit ENTER (aka you insert a new line), the new line should be automatically a comment line. At the moment, the cursor is being positioned on the beginning of the text in...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

GDPS/PPRC management of an additional PPRC-XD relation off the secondary FC target.

We would like to manage with GDPS a PPRC-XD relation starting from the secondary FC target of the production sysplex to our pre-production sysplex disks.
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

Refresh projects during Eclipse authentication

When authenticating on Eclipse, the list of projects should refresh automatically, without having to right click on the Explorer window.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD - v6.0.1 - CCS project monitor field doesn't work in the sorted order of time duration (Eg; build progress)

In AD version v6.0.1 after build or post build processes there is no facility to display long time consuming build progress projects from the CCS admin console. In the top right corner there is "status field" that only filters status alone that do...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

MTR command length needs to be increased

The current Activate , Deactivate & Monitor commands are limited to 159 characters. It would be nice if there was the ability to add additional linese
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Restore functionality to allow allocation of new dataset in batch JCL from 3.3 dataset copy menu item.

To have reusable JCL / to help new users with examples of File Manager batch JCL allocating new datasets when using the DSC (dataset copy) function.
12 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration