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Add symbolic variable support to IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer

Enhance IMS Explorer so Liberty type symbolic variables can be used as values in fields. For example (but not limited to) as value for an IMS datastore value in an Interaction Profile or a host name in a Connection Profile) This would facilitate t...
about 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

Write code generation messages, generated by the backend, to SYSPRINT DD dataset if messages are linked to source code.

In the compilation output, each compiler message, with the exception of the code generation messages in the range 5000-5999, produced by the frontend starts with IBMnnnnI X where:- IBM indicates that the message is a PL/I message.- nnnn is the num...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Update CICS WS Security to allow stronger signatures

update CICS Transaction Server to allow stronger signatures
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API interface : Provide API to request License Status

New API needed !When using the Query_License script( /opt/IBM/LDK/query_license), it returns informations regarding licensing (logins CPU, max logins CPU, currently active sessiosn with associatied IP adress,...) We need to get this functionnality...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Comparing 2 nullable values that are both null returns false

We have 2 variables that are nullable (for example: nullable ints or nullable dates).If both variables are null, and we check them for equality, the result should be true, but it's false. Code example:a, b int?;a = null;b = null;if(a == b) writeSt...
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

AA EGL RTL support children of a widget with RTL

This issue is kind of generic, It's regarding the RTL support, Unlike the HTML, the children of a widget with RTL orientation does NOT always inherit the orientation, most of it has its default LTR settings,that means, when we want to present a sc...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Mark occurrences of variables also on variable copy statements

IDz doesn't mark occurrences, when the variable is used as replacement in a COPY/REPLACE statement in the procedure division. Please see the attachment. Especially chapter 3
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Extend AD to be able map our online CICS environment with non-unique transaction names.

Main goal is to allow additional (user) attributes to support having the same transaction name multiple times in AD repository but with different program names and user attributes in different projects. Way back in the 1980's, our company wasn't h...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T v12.0.1 - Dynamic change within DevMap

Hot Plug additional volume (1 volume = 8GB —current it is preallocate)
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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