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HLASM ADCON Type for Weak External Reference

HLASM would provide a new ADCON type (e.g. W or WV) that would generate an address constant containing a weak external reference to a symbol in another module to be linked with the module containing the W ADCON reference. This new ADCON type would...
over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Not under consideration

Allow DFHLS2WS/DFHWS2LS to set User-ID and/or security bits for generated files (WSBIND, WSDL, LOG)

We have a lot of developers in our shop and most DO NOT have an OMVS segment. This was not a problem until we installed z/OS 2.1. Files generated by the Web Service Assistant can now only be updated by someone with 'superuser' authority or by the ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Using ALTERNATE INDEX VSAM file in zUnit

VSAM (KSDS) using ALTERNATE INDEX is not currently supported when unit test is performed with zUnit. Our PJT uses VSAM which defined ALTERNATE INDEX very much, and efficiency can not be expected unless we can not unit test by zUnit for maintenance...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IMS Parallel ICAL calls

The ICAL call allows applications to synchronously call out to external applications. This requirement is to allow multiple synchronous callouts to be issued in parallel with the application waiting for replies when it has issued the last ICAL in ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

IMS IVP Dialog - Scratch-Steps should end with RC=00

IEF403I IV3C101J - STARTED - TIME= -JOBNAME STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC -IV3C101J SCRATCH 08 -IV3C101J ALLOCATE 00 IEF404I IV3C101J - ENDED - TIME=09 Der Scratch erfolgt über IDCAMS in der Beschreibung steht das RC=00 und RC=08 in Ordnung sind, warum nic...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

RDz compare program in different CARMA environment

When compare 2 programs in 2 different CARMA Endevor environment, it not show the environment name in the comparison windows. So it is very inconvenience to user to know which one (right or left) is actually in which enviornment. Also missing is s...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

dynamic distribution of CICS-to-Java workload across the CICS regions Liberty JVM servers

A CICS link to a Java class uses the CICS program definition (PPT) to direct the request to the appropriate Liberty server. The program definition was either dynamically created by the @CICSProgram annotation in the Java class or predefined by an ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Using CPSM API as thread safe.

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. We want CPSM activity to run on L8 like MQ and DB2 and not to be limited to the QR TCB, allowing us both to save TCB s...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CA7 In Memory process with Wildcards

ANZ would like to have a selection field holding Job Schedule wildcard option in the Application Discovery, CA7 Workload Automation tab of the z/OS configuration window of the Build Server.ANZ has over 140000 job schedules and it would be better t...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

As a WA user, I would like to have an option to open a program call graph from a program file's node menu

From the Fiducia rep:- Clicking on menu doesn't allow to open a call graph, only view properties in Source File graph view- Will need design for this option flow (see number 4 in the list found in the attached subsequent restrictions due double ar...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 4 Not under consideration

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