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Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record

Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record in GIU AD Build Client (settings panel) and in asynchronous command MS-DOS.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Purge mecanism of project in AD tools for SQL Server & OrientDB

Possibilty in the AD tools to have a purge of selected projects in SQL Server and OrientDB.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow jumping to specific point in flowchart from the source code

Allow jumping to a specific location in the flowchart based on the source-code (e.g. by double-clicking a statement / line)
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 connections and DB2 prepared statements in IMS JMP regions

Java applications running in an IMS JMP region have to reestablish the DB2 connection for each input message they process. Because of this prepared statements also cannot be reused when processing the next input message. They have to be prepared a...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Add batch job (JCL) function to create web service and .SAR file in z/OS connect for IMS.

Enhance z/OS Connect for IMS by using batch job to create web service and .sar file . For example like CICS does . (BAQLS2JS) submit JCL job to create service and file . The current environment might have lots of applications need to publish as AP...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Connect to remote Database

Provide system option to define connection to a remote database service, exposed only as an option for programs within the scope of an Application definition. Implemented using lightweight TCP/IP to a datasource, including IMS and DB2, capturing t...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

CICSPLEX Systems Manager (CPSM) Web User Interface (WUI) Security for Shutdown of Regions

Shutting down an LMAS (a cics region) via the WMAS (Web User Interface CICS Region) , no Userid is captured in logs to say who shutdown the CICS region. The default User ID of the CICS region being shut down is captured in the logs. Audit requirem...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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