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Cross-processor Short Term Pool Return & Pool Directory Update

Allow short term pool directories to be updated by any processor in a z/TPF loosely-coupled complex to prevent lost short term pool and accelerated re-dispensing of pool causing improper re-use of pool currently in use by another LNIATA AAA.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Move "Identify Unreachable Code" from Source Menu iItem to the Refractor menu item

Context Menu in COBOL Editor, Identify Unreachable Code in the Source Mune Item should go to the Refractor menu item where Remove Noise Words and identify Noise words is.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Request for IMS Replication and IMS to support logically /virtual related DBDs

IMS Replication Mainframe to Mainframe and IMS 1. Some logically related DBDs will not accept/allow Exits to be added on specific segments2. IMS Replication requires that each segment be augmented for replication to occur3. Need to find a permanen...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

RPP 9.5.1 Date computing, date comparison micropatterns and lowercase

Lower case letter operands are not recognized for dates micropatterns (*!DAD, *!DCD, *!DCF etc….)
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

add MQMD_EXPIRY in DFSYDTx for MQ destination descriptor

Hello, we currently use DFSYDTx member in PROC lib to define MQ destination descriptor for IMS transaction to send out message to MQ queue, but there is no MQMD_EXPIRY parameter, we don't know how to set expiry time for the MQ message.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

need pushtoclient to export multiple RSE connections from the same host

RSE connections to the same push to client primary hostname are not exported with push to client export wizard. This restriction is documented on the RDz 9.1.1 Infocenter: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_9.1.1/com.ibm.etools.z...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Protect Debug Tool Host against internal Abends

DebugTool should be loaded into protected storage to prevent that significant debugger-moduls are overriden by an user-program.
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for MQ in Assembler

We need support for MQ in Assembler.Please see PMR for all details.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Host Graphics capability to PComm similar to HOD

RFE opened as per suggestion by IBM im PMR 36247,122,000. Add Host Graphics capabilities to PComm similar to HOD. See PMR for details.
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to check the state of saving a source in the APIs of IDz

In our own-written IDz-plugin using the IDz-APIs we have to start an additional process to write the source from the Mainframe-dataset to our SCM as soon as the editor is closed. Therefore we need the possibility to find out whether the saving to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration