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Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Please add a digital signature for program bundled with IDz \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe

Currently there is no digital signature when viewing the properties of the file \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe in Windows. Setting a digital signature on \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe indicates that the program has been created by IBM and has not been tampered with.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

Add SQL builder in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support some of our developers are missing the possibility to graphicly build SQL query with SQL Query Builder, if possible bring this functionality into IDz 16 SQL editor.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Enable tape level encryption in CTC VTE component

Provide an encryption option with CTC's VTE component to enable host based encryption of system tape.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IZSAM display truncation message at top of report

Currently the message indicating truncated results (more than xxx rows) is available at the bottom of the report. Many users are not seeing this message. Is it possible to display this message at the top of the report? Many user are doing a quick ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Functionality already exists

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