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Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

CICS EXIT POINT to INTERCEPT or ALTER userid

We are running CICS TS 5.2. We have an issue that some of our application transactions are being initiated without supplying a user ID, therefore CICS region userid or CICS default user id is used for those transactions. This is not compliant to o...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Email attachments are not saving as separate documents while ingesting Emails through ICC 4.0.1.8

Case ID - TS000885259Product - IBM Content Collector 4.0.1.8 We are doing a mailbox ingestion where we use "EC Extract Attachments" in the taskroute . However if the attachment itself is an email /.msg file , the attachment is not getting saved as...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

IMS Connect Multiple TCP/IP Stack Support

IMS Connect is not able to connect to multiple TCP/IP stacks and because of this we are actually using the IMS Explorer only on our system programmers test environment – otherwise we would have to setup additional IMS Connects on our customers LPA...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 3 Not under consideration

Provide I18N/L10N gettext APIs for XL/C on z/OS

A system level, common, industry standard, platform independent, service is needed to perform internationalization/localization translation services on text strings when running on z/OS. This is needed for both applications compiled to use Languag...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

Workstation Profile Option to disable printing

We need to disallow printing via the Print Screen or Print Graphics. I know that the PCSCMENU.EXE utility allows us to remove the menu entries. However what we need is a single option in the Workstation profile which disables the print function, e...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

consistent naming in management apis

we are in the process of building a web-based graphical user interface to consume the z/OS Connect Management REST-interface API's. Consistency in naming would make it easier to parse responses from the Mangament REST-interface. Some aspects of th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to weighted msg rate data reduction metrics

Requesting new metrics for rates per weighted messages that exclude work driven by LP ECBs. Specifically:1) VFA, tape, and 3390 rates per weighted message2) Enters per weighted message Note: high priority RFE id 152827 requests mils/weighted messa...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - New compilation directive ">>RULES(ON|OFF)"

In addition to RFE 120105 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120105), I suggest implementing a ">>RULES(ON|OFF)" compilation directive to enable / disable controls related to the "RULES ()" compilation ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

trap AKCC with EXEC CICS RECEIVE

Trap an abend AKCC during an EXEC CICS RECEIVE
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration