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Certify ooRexx version 5.0 for use with TOS.

Version 4.2 has long standing reliability issues. Version 5.0 is newer and will offer better perfomance to TOS customers.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe. Currently we have Set of TWS workstation ID and password saved in PARMFTA userinfo dataset on mainframe to connect to connect to zcentric workstation pn windows This userid and password is...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Delta IDAA tables for SMF interval DB2 statistics

On IZPCA there is activity of delta tables ( D_DB2_BUFF_POOL_% - D_DB2_SYSTEM_% ...) these work using record procedure DRLSD64D for DB2 statistics records, that calculates the delta values for the fields. There is also an existing mapping for RECO...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
10 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Enable JCICS to be mocked easily for unit testing

We need the ability to easily mock the JCICS framework to drive unit testing requirements.
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Cross hair support in the 3270 Host emulator Cursor RDz

The 3270 emulators ( PCOMM for example), supports Cross-Hair cursor ( also called Cross Line - where you have vertical and Horizontal lines in the 3270 cursor) , and we request the same feature in the 3270 Host emulator of RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

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