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z/OS Remote System connection Export/Import

Currently the z/OS Explorer allows you to export all of your host connections that are non-rse (remote system explorer). This means that all RSE connections need to be manually entered on any secondary installation of IBM z/OS Explorer.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Provide program interface to CEDF ON/OFF

Provide a method to both inquire and set the terminal's CEDF status so that EDF can programmatically be turned off.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Have Personal Communications ignore Line Breaks during paste

Currently Personal Communications has the ability to ignore line breaks when pasting data into a VT Session. We would like the same capability when pasting in to a TN3270 session.This is a feature available with the Product we are replacing with P...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Informatio...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

AddBatch SQL support for Inserts

Customer measurements show that INSERT SQL statements are much slower than DLI Path Calls executed with the Universal Drivers. Customer likes to have addBatch support for speeding up SQL Inserts.
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Json builtin routines

1) We tried the json commands in PL/I, but sorry, they are programmer unfriendly. If I want to use them well I have to write a program around them and this is really not what I want. 2) a variable type json would be interesting ... sample json get...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect to support OAuth1.0

Our team is trying to make call from Mainframes to APIs that were build on cloud, these APIs are being built behind OAuth 1.0. we see that ZOS Connect supports OAuth 2.0, Can IBM ZOSConnect support OAuth 1.0 calls, so that we donot need a proxy be...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

zAppBuild should provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer needed

DBB does not have API to delete datasets, but the JZOS API has. From Joseph Taffe-Atkins5/UK/IBM I believe this is worth an enhancement request in zAppBuild to provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer n...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration