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Allow third party Service Provider interface to set System of Record Data

Customers of monitoring products like OMEGAMON for JVM want to be able to monitor API connections to third party service providers like DVM. The public third party Service Provider interface does populate any of the SoR fields for SMF or intercept...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Give customers the option to activate the LE Langage Environment per configuration in IMS-connect

We implemented our ims-connect exits in Cobol, so we had to initialize the LE environment in the init phase.As the assembler skill is shrinking in the company, we try to eliminate as far as possible self-written assembler routines It makes also se...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration

PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

improvment in carma view subfolder refresh mechanism

carma view displays wrong extentions to member and unsynchronized members list in carma view and search view, if changed.the only way to refresh the view is to refresh directly the parent folder.holding the members.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

adding propery group support for carma view/browse option

when opening a member from Carma view in brose or view modethere is no proprty group associated with it and so the code understanding is very limited
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

IDz Table views to have filters directly in column and provide search for tables

Direct filters on columns will provide quick results which sometimes is what's only needed. Same with the ability to quickly search a Table.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

JVM profile - Extend support to include Environment/System Variables

Currently the JVM profile supports a limited set of substitution variables. We would like to expand it to include any environment variable or system variable.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Duplicate Code Detection

Show programs with duplicate code / logic in addition to dead code.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration