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added granularity to security around commands

TYPE-1 commands allowing granting a user start, stop, lock, and unlock authority separate from the authority to change other metadata, such as changing a TRAN from parallel to serial or setting EDITUC. TYPE-2 commands should support this, too, but...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

control authority to issue commands with wildcards

Allow controlling who has authority on issuing commands with wildcards
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Consideration of IMSTMT files during make projects

When we add an IMSTMT file to a project (already existing and built) that does not include one, the "make project" doesn't take it into account. So, we are obliged to do a build, which takes us out of our automatic project update process.However, ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Application Model API for IWSz

API available on the DWC installed on Z system with the URL hostname:portname/twsz/# does not contain Model API for Application when there are available with the Distributed IWS We'd like to have this model available, for IWSz as it is for the Dis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Modernize Exception Handling in EXEC CICS API

While learning CICS programming with Cobol, programmers with background in Java or other newer programming languages find fault with the current exception handling in CICS. Although CICS offers a broad range of techniques to cope with exceptions i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is listas a required field

Add CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is listas a required field. CARMA COMMENT box when adding a member is not listed as a required field. While doing any package related action like Add element/CAST CARMA Endevor required comments field as...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add Docker support to DBB server

Sun Life is interested in running DBB Web Server (non-mainframe component) into Docker. It aligns with their overall enterprise strategy. It will be more efficient for Sun Life to have DBB running on Docker than maintain a server on a distributed ...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Unreferenced Variables

When variables are defined in a program (and not in a copybook), as in :01 Used. 05 unused Pic x. 05 usedP1 pic x. The variable unused is not referenced but usedP1 is. We can see if they are not referenced in the program by looking Show In -> D...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

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