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Debug: ignore an instruction permanently without stopping

This is a reopen on RFE 150425 as it was misunderstood and closed as "delivered". Please add a way to permanently ignore an instruction during a Debug session. The command JUMPTO doesn't help as it stops the debugger and needs to be entered each t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Pass Business data from abending transaction to CICS policy EP adapter

In Policy system rules abend transaction. Offer a CICS container where a CICS transaction business application can put data, like customer id, which could help investigate an abend. The container should be made available to the EP adapter transact...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Today IMS can startup its CSL Stasks of SCI,OM,RM; extend to startup CQS(for RM) and ODBM

Today IMS via its DFSDFxxx member allows its CSL address spaces (SCI/OM/RM) to be started by the IMS Control region using: SCIPROC=,OMPROC=,RMPROC=. However, our CSL setup for RM requires a 'non-shared Queues' CQS to be started, if the CQS is not...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect to support the token being returned from the authorization server in a custom field in an OAuth 2.0 flow

We are using the z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support to obtain an access token from our EUA Authorization server. This retrieves the access token from the “access_token” field of the JSON response, as per the OAuth 2.0 specification. In the response th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Negative selection on ADID with WAPL

We've been experimenting with negative logic and wildcards in LIST not equal commands with WAPL, but we are not able to get it to work. Thus far we are only able to use fully qualified ADID names in the LIST Not Equal statement, i.e. LIST ADID-NE(...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Missing functions in COBOL

To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Eliminate the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME as it is not necessary and causes many problems

Currently the SSCMNAME can be coded as (EQQSSCMx,TEMPORARY) or (EQQSSCMx,PERMANENT) where x is a subsystem suffix (for instance letter O for 10.1 release). However it is not necessary to have the TEMPORARY option as to go to the different release ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Make it easy to find the scripts needed to create the DB2 history database on a non-z/OS platform (UNIX, LINUX,WINDOWS)

Currently, the DB2 history file definitions for a database on z/OS DB2 are provided in SEQQSAMP while the skips needed for the other platforms are only available in a CD image (ISO) that can be obtained by ordering the zWS product via SHOP z SERIE...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to modify the PWFI parameter without restarting the region

Actually, when we want to made some operation on DB2, we have to change the PWFI Status to NO in order to remove the active THREAD and not to keep it. For changing the PWFI status, we have to restart the region. Is it possible to remove this resta...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration