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Push to Client of Local property groups

The Push to client feature gives the opportunity to distribute the standard property groups to the developer's workspace. The local property groups are ignored.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add PERFORM SHUTDOWN parms to set next auto start to COLD or INITIAL

Add the optional parameters COLD and INITIAL to PERFORM SHUTDOWN to set the next non-emergency start to COLD or INITIAL in the global catalog. Setting either parameter would also avoid the overhead of writing the warm keypoint. Note that COLD or I...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Add MQ support to 64-bits PL/1 applications

We are migrating existing PL/1 applications to 64-bits. These applications are accessing MQ via the MQ API and RRS coordination. There is currently no support for MQ 64-bits PL/1 callers, only for C 64-bits caller.Theoretically, the dll providing ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

zOS DFSMS Naviquest: Include Last Dataset Update Date/Time Field

Hi, Our 3M Environment reached an stage where we urgently requires Information on the z/OS Datasets Last Update and unfortunately it is not currently provided. The closest IBM provides is LREF+CHGID and which is actually False Information.- The CH...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

Limit the size of AIDs chain for Transid

This is a evolution of RFE 98067, in which the customer asked to be able to set a limitation for new starts of transactions when the number of AIDs in a CICS region reached to this limit. Today, however, the customer has "evolved" this issue furth...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ZPTCH improvements

Customer is asking for improvements to zpatch to prevent system issue;The issue appears to be the possibility of inadvertently applying core updates after filing the 20 allowed ZPTCH patch deck slots. The core updates happen because the process al...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to copy/paste text file with null character in RDz editors (Cobol)

RDz editors (Cobol, etc) do not have a way to allow cut/paste beyond a null-terminated string.When pasted into RDz, the file is truncated at the null-terminated line.Notepad editor replaces nulls with spaces and that is why it works in notepad. Ca...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Improve function for compress of IMS type99 log using H/W component instead of MVS service

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS for next disaster recovery system. It needs new IMS type99 log records for data replication at source system.The source system's CPU usage was increased 20 percents by adding type99 log. We wo...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data items

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data item.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration