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Add preference option to suppress or control prompting behavior for multi-selected elements

The following problem description and solution was provided the CARMA developer. ---- Start of problem description ----The way CARMA works is that when you select multiple elements, CARMA will present a dialog for each selection. The IDz Endevor I...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Allow for sub-second SSL_write when using Shared CTX

Since Shared CTX SSL_write() is always blocking from an application perspective, we must rely on the socket send timeout (SO_SNDTIMEO) to get control back should an event occur such as insufficient send buffer space. SO_SNDTIMEO is only granular t...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Mise en place de contr?les sur entit?s overrid?es

RPP permet de cr?er des entit?s overrid?es (en particulier des rubriques et des segments) comme dans Pacbase. La diff?rence est que ces entit?s peuvent ?tre cr??es dans les sous ou super-biblioth?ques et qu'il n'y a pas de contr?le sur ces entit?s...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Application Discovery: Add support duplicated section names on COBOL

Currently Application Discovery does not supportduplicated section names on COBOL, as they are saved into the database as a parent structure for the statements contained.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ICAL Synchronous callout to MQ destination

Today we see an increasing demand from our IMS application developers to be able to reach out to applications outside the mainframe and wait for a reply. Many of these outside applications are housed in environments where MQ is a preferred way of ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Shortcut to toggle the vertial line in the editor

We are using the PL/I editor and our developers who test IDz 14.0.0.5 like the possibility to have a vertical line for alignment of code - this is a big help. But they do complain about a missing shortcut to turn it on/off.It is too time consuming...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add masks and status to the DTCD parameter

DTCD currently accepts one of two parameter values - a specific owner ID (the key to the file), or * for all. Judging by its response time (and the results when interrupter after a partial performance), DTCD * goes over the file, record by record,...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow server.xml deployment in CICS bundles

Since TS 5.2 CICS has allowed jvm servers to be packages and deployed via bundle, along with its associated jvmprofile. For Liberty profile jvmservers, this support should be extended to likewise permit deployment of the associated server.xml file.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Run OLR through job batch

It would be useful to have the possibility to run OLR directly by job batch. The job has to be active during the whole reorganization.
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 3 Not under consideration

IMS

We are running online image copy using DFSUICC0 utilitySometimes we can have up to 50 image copy jobs running in parallelWhen too many jobs are running in parallel, we get rid of CSA because DFSUICC0 is running in 24 bit mode Would it be possible ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration