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ibm_db to be shipped with supported driver

IBM should ship the the ibm_db driver with their Python for z/OS. Underway is a DBA modernization initiative where we are bringing in modern tooling and languages such as Python for z/OS and in particular the ibm_db library for communicating with ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Multiple CGs for CKD volumes for xDR Linux guests running on zVM LPARs

As of today IBM SYSPLEX and GDPS Architecture relies on 1 and only one CKD Consistency group. RB would like IBM to allow multiple consistency groups (at least 1 z/OS and 4 CKD Consistency Group for zLinux applications residing in z/VM environments...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Structured Programming Macros: support parenthetical grouping of logical conditions via parentheses

Support for parenthetical grouping of logical conditions is currently only possible by using the ANDIF and ORIF operators. This is because the Structured Programming Macros do not support the use of parentheses to specify logical hierarchy of cond...
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Support mixed case in field „Applparms“

Today data entered in the field “Applparms” (INGREQ or INGSET) will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this field.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Need explicit Resp information in CICS Application Events

When creating a CICS application event, the user cannot specify a filter using the Response code, only on OK or NOT OK. When this is coupled with not being able to include the response codes in the emitted data (that I can find) I cannot drive act...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Open big sysout whith IDZ

We have sysout with 500000 lines or more, and we can't open it with IDZ. For big sysout it is possible to add a function for open it at line n, or for search an particular string and open it a this line ? An editor similar to "Editeur de donnée Sy...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 9 Not under consideration

Enhancement for IDz Account Number\SMF Tracking

Request IBM to introduce an enhancement to the RDz (IDz) software. The enhancement will be to allow the mainframe portion of RDz to perform the necessary internal system interactions (i.e. SMF records) that will allow an individual RDz user's reso...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

To support variable length string json payload for IMS API

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

zCEE - mechanism to pass parameters to zosconnect_authToken

We are using the zCEE to retrieve a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a third-party authorization server and pass it on a request to an API endpoint, as described here:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zosconnect/3.0?topic=jwt-calling-api-secured-third-partyIn ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

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