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Support up to 100 chararcters in mapped PLI names when using XML assistant DFHSC2LS / DFHWS2LS

Due to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.2.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_wsdl2pli.html the xml assistant DFHSC2LS truncates resulting PLI names to a maximum of 31 characters. But PLI supports u...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V5+ - Possibility to encrypt the source code present in the dwarf section

The TEST(dwarf,source) option stores the source code (not the compilation listing) in the dwarf section. Moreover, it is the source code expanded after resolution of the calls of copybooks which is stored. This is useful for debugging (tracing) o...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V5+ - TEST(dwarf,source) option violates *CONTROL NOSOURCE directives

When the *CONTROL NOSOURCE / *CONTROL SOURCE directives are used in a source code, the lines present between these two directives are excluded from the compilation listing. However, if the compiler option TEST(dwarf,source) is activated, then the...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

client ipadr provided with EXCI

We would like to have the client IP adr when running CTG on z/OS with EXCI connexions to CICS
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Multiple ADDI instance use same SQL Server

We have 2 apps that use ADDI. We would like to use the same SQL Server VM instance for both. How do we setup our DB/instances/configuration to do this?
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TRDUMPCODE Current count increase in size

For the TRDUMPCODE display, would like to increase the Current count from 4 digits to at least 6 digits. Although it seems like a excessive amount, we have had occasions of test CICS regions creating more than 100K transaction abends when triggere...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide AWS message identifiers for oprmsg messages

The customer would like to see the message "1090 not running" that is returned when the instance is not running to be documented in the man files. A better solution would be to provide AWS message ids that could be looked up with the msginfo comma...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Improve Web Service Assistant

The Web Services Assistant DFHWS2LS generates nillabel fields as 2 fields in the high level language definition. One for the field itself and one field attr-nil-xxx-value with X'01' for true and X'00' for false. The utility should generate 88-leve...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Additional field for TCPIPSERVICE resource definition (GSE Requirement GGCIC11001)

A special IP stack can be addressed by its IP address only (or the default stack must be used). A specification of the stack by the name of the STC would make the definition more transparent. This is already implemented in Integrated IMS Connect (...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration