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Enable administrative control for default panel layouts

Provide the ability to setup site wide panel layouts for the archive list layout which will then become part of the end users profile and customized from there. While this specific request is for the archive list layout in the ISPF interface it wo...
about 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS 4.2 expansion for sign on userid.

I want to expand for userid longer than 8 characters on the cics transaction server 4.2 sign on screen.What needs to be done.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Validation capabilities in File Manager

Provide the means to invoke a data validation routine upon a record change using File Manager
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit trail for configuration manager

We would like to have a kind of audit trail in CICS configuration Manager in order to log both changes made with CM and with CEDA transaction
about 9 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhanced support for Library Managment Systems (LMS)

Enhance File Manager to allow use of Library Management Systems in the Input Data Set areas throughout the entire product (Edit, View, Find/Change, Compare, etc).
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PL1- and Cobol Editor has wrong event handling with subscription

We are writing own plugins and are using the RDZ subscription mechanism. This mechanism works perfectly with the LPEX editor, but the pl1- and cobol editor when closing a dirty editor, sends first the close event and then the postChangeEvent on th...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Override default/customized RC values via SET (Set Processing Options) at execution time

The FM users are asking for a solution to override the default/customized Return Code values via SET (Set Processing Options) at execution time similar to the File-AID PARM= options. As an example, it should be coded as following for DCM function:...
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

In TXSeries WLM, COR can pass the same TransId as COR to AOR.

In CICS WLM, COR can pass the same TransId to AOR.Currently, the TransId in AOR is determined by the routing program defined in COR(paramater TransId in PD.stanza, it is CPMI by default).
about 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Reduce memory usage in CARMA C_GET_CONTAINER_CONTENTS

When a user is listing the entries (datasets, dataset members, etc.) under a container, all of the items are passed from the CARMA RAM to CARMA via memory (C allocation) and from CARMA to client via memory (Java allocation). It is needed to reduce...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

FM for DB2, Site Profile: global-customized site settings

File Manager for DB2Enable the option of a site global settings file for all users instead of configuring settings in each user's workspace. For example, 3.3 define globally: DUPS UPDATE for all users.
about 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration