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DL/I Call Resource Governor

IMS should support a resource governor facility which can abort an inflight DL/I call after a certain amount of CPU, I/O, or elapsed time. The abort should abend the UR. This will help prevent situations where a problematic long running DL/I call ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Debugger: Displaying Variable content as Hex like in ISPF Editor

Hi IBM, it would be nice, if the Remote Debugger GUI would be able to display hex values of variables like in ISPF. Samples: A pic 9(4) digit:1234 (original display)----FFFF (first halfbyte)1234 (second halfbyte) B pic 9(9) comp-3 Packed Decimal: ...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession Danish language Support

We have 2 customers using Supersession, where we have translated all relevant panels from English to Danish. What we have found is there is often PTF's which update these panels we've updated, so we need track changes to these panels via SMP/E use...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Variable number of containers in .sar

We have many programs allocating a variable number of containers (we identified programs where this occurs in output , but it could happen in input as well). All these containers are identical from structure point of view, their number and their n...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow the E3270UI to add CICS regions to a MSL ahead of time, that is when the CICS region has never yet run.

New CICS region(s) cannot be added into any Managed System List (MSL) until the HTEMS is aware of the CICS region(s), aka the CICS region has to run for a while, connect to the TEMA and HTEMS before the CICS region name is shown and can be added t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Endevor promotions in CLI

When syncing a project with Endevor thru sync service it's not possible to provide a promotion-list as you are able to to thru GUI in build configuration. This will be an enhancement for automating updates of project that receives source from seve...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

USE EXEC SQLIMS with CCSID 1390

One of the three mega bank in Japan requires to use EXEC SQLIMS language support with CCSID 1390. EXEC SQLIMS language support is indispensable for their on-going project.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for Function shipping over MRO

This requirement is raised on behalf of CEB. CEB is under threadsafe change and find out that there are too many TCB switches in a transaction as Function shipping over MRO API are non-threadsafe. So they need function shipping API are threadsafe ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity

Need of ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity When using ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ the list returned by APi is to large and too detailled.Could you add filters to help us to list available image ...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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