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(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Support CICS application-provided SOAP faults for inbound web services

TXseries does not support Channels with inbound web services. Thus web service programs must be called with a COMMAREA.
almost 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

GEO-561 (IBM) GEOMPARM Validation

Need the ability to validate GDPS/GM DASD configuration data (GEOMPARM) when the devices are not in a normal Global Mirror state.
about 9 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

Add a switch which can toggle set or not those 2 jsse2 providers in HODJSSEImpl

We found the below 2 lines of code in class com.ibm.eNetwork.security.ssl.HODJSSEImpl will impact to other HTTPS connecitons in same JVM. //Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");//Security.setProp...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Track the number of heap requests and releases for AVL1-5 per ECB

Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of ECB heap requests (malloc/calloc/ralloc) for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of releases of ECB heap for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add the new counters to ZMOWN.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Planned for future release

PCOMM Certificate Error Override

An option is available in the pcswin.ini file:[Security]PassthroughCertValidation=Y This allows PCOMM to connect to z/OS hosts where certificates are not trusted. However, it also generates a warning popup dialog that the user must respond to befo...
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

Improve logging of HACPEE connections in HILMv13

Currently, Host Integration License Manager (HILM) is capturing HACPEE connections but is not able to log specific details such as: a. IP Addressb. User Namec. Machine Addressd. Machine Name Additionally, request to provide new logging options suc...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM Data transfert dialog to remove button which allows to swap from receive to send mode

We want to block under PCOMM the sending of data from the workstation to our AS400 for security reasonsWe want to keep the extractions of the AS400 to the workstation by the reception optionWe have disabled the sending of data in the menus of the ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release