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CICS Named Counter API Commands need security

CICS has a series of API commands to utilise Named Counters: DEFINE (D)COUNTER DELETE (D)COUNTER GET (D)COUNTER QUERY (D)COUNTER REWIND (D)COUNTER UPDATE (D)COUNTER Looking in the documentation: Access to named counter pools - IBM Documentation in...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Flag RX instructions with index but no base register

It has been a common malpractice since more than half a century not to use a base register but the index register in rx instructions, e.g. L Ra,100(Rb) instead of L Ra,100(,Rb). Historically, this implied some performance penalty (AFAIR), nowadays...
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM, we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of t...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

allow for zd&t docker image to be loaded from a repository

The customer would like to load the zd&t docker image from a repository of their choosing.
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
12 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Rendering Name filter results is very slow in Show In > Data Elements view

The Name filter is very slow when a program has a lot of variable. There should be an option to turn the key press listener off and only re-render the list when the Enter key is pressed.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Add Open Perform Hierarchy from Show In > Data Elements view

Open Declaration and Occurrences in Compilation Unit are available in the Data Elements view. Open Perform Hierarchy needs to be added.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Improving z/OS Connect resilience

To wrap outbound API calls with Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead patterns provided by Liberty mpFaultTolerance-2.0 feature
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration