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Enhance GETSYSWORD to Support USERID

Please enhance GETSYSWORD to support USERID depending on the current environment: - Under CICS, provide the ID from the user, like getting it from EXEC CICS ASSIGN USERID.- Under IMS MPP, provide the ID from the user, like reading it from the TP P...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Planned for future release

Enable 'Active job address space' view for all SYSPLEX address spaces

We have a SYSPLEX of three LPARs. In 'Remote Systems => JES => Active Jobs' I can see all active Jobs of those three systems. In 'Active job address space' view (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/explorer-for-zos/3.2?topic=subsystem-displayin...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

A new rule to RULES(NOLAXPERF)

When indexing into strings, there should be a warning when not using optimal variables for the index variables.
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

field containing CVTSNAME in log record x'56FA'

we need a new field in record x'56FA'.this field should contain value CVTSNAME (euqal to field ST4500_OSNAME in record x'4500')
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

A dynamic PRELOAD in dependant IMS region

Hi, For a Message Processing Region or Fast Path Region, it is possible to enable PRELOAD with a list of modules specified in a DFSMPLxx member of the IMS PROCLIB. To maintain a such static list in DFSMPLxx member is quit a heavy task. If it will ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

IAM SCIM to page LDAP query results

Currently common Service IAM component does have a feature to display the LDAP query results by page. It can get all the results onetime and show it to the user. Due to the large amount of the data, IAM truncates and shows part of the query result...
over 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow for global custom JSONata functions that can be used across any mapping in the API.

Customer exchanges data between remote systems (UTF-8) and mainframe back-end (EBCDIC) that contains special characters which need to be translated to a specific back-end encoding and vice versa. The translation needs to take place while the data ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Create SYSplex level view in OMEGAMON For Storage

All of the default workspaces provided by OMEGAMON For Storage appear at the LPAR level in the navigator, but several of the objects monitored by OMEGAMON For Storage are common to all LPARs in a SYSplex. OMEGAMON For Storage should provide SYSple...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

CICS File State Retention

Add persistance to SET FILE command allowing us to maintain state across COLD/WARM/EMERGENCY starts.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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