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Quick Reference Cards to ease searching for developers and to promote adoption of RDz

Quick Reference Cards are the way for developers to have a large part of the functionality at hand. It gives them the means to find RDz actions fast. An example of a Quick Reference Card can be found for the CICS Explorer. It is attached to this RFE.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

Add additional properties to policy rules

Today with z/OS Connect policy files you can only use headers to make a decision on which CICS transaction and connection to use. What we are needing is a way to use the headers and other information such as the API operation, path, method e.g. to...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions. Example:red string = "red";setColor(field, red);... function setColor(field formField, color string) set field color;end
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Limit on Terminal Error Conditions or transactions run on specific terminal

Limit number of terminal transaction errors and/or number of transactions entered from a single terminal.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

URI MAP Pipeline Scan Install model - web assistant

URI MAP MODEL for the Web Assistant (JSON); pipeline scan, bind file.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Not allow user handle abend for AICA

We are interested in an option or mechanism at CICS system level to withdraw HANDLE ABEND issued by any user application program at run time for AICA transaction abend code. This function would to prevent user routine continue to be processing as ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

MRO and Threadsafe

Allow threadsafe for remote requests (file control, dpl, etc.) over MRO.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

BNPP - Usage - Library Variant and MAF extractions

MAF extractions should take into account the usage and the library variant according to the rule implemented today in PACBASE.
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

AMODE64 as AMODE 31 is everywhere in the bowels of CICS, and the product would need almost a complete rewrite to support AMODE 64 COBOL.

To support Above the BAR storage allocations. COBOL supports this, but CICS does not.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Propagate JWT in a chained API flow between inbound to Z and outbound from Z

We need the JWT that is verified with Liberty & z/OS Connect for an API with CICS/IMS service provider to be carried forward or propagated when that provider becomes an API requester to another Rest API on another platform.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration