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Update Deployment Wizard to allow specification of Web Start desktop icon

Enhance the Deployment Wizard to allow specifying a user defined icon to be specified when generating a Web Start client. The Deployment Wizard should include a panel that allows the user to select an alternative icon to be used for the desktop sh...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

DFHSO0106 code X'0C11' BIND_ERROR -1,1115,744C7247

Receiving the following message after upgrading zos from 1.13 to 2.1DFHSO0106 A UNIX System Services Assembler Callable Service error (code X'0C11') has occurred in module DFHSOLS. The trace shows many BIND_ERRORs with RETURN_CODE(1115) REASON_COD...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Linklist library

To be possible PARMGEN allocate and populate a new library for using (concatenated) in LNKLST (z/OS parmlib). Almost of the customers refuse to use RKANMOD because the number of members and create a new LOADLIB and copy de necessary modules for us...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Variable to support more than 8 positions

Is very important for installation flexibility have parameters supporting variables with more than 8 characters.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RFE: PARMGEN – Select product to regenerate parameterization

Include on Option 3 (Create Runtime Members) an intermediate panel that allows us to select the products that we want to regenerate the parameterization. The possibility to select a product do regenerate parameter reduced a lot the time to apply m...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

VALIDDATE shall support more date/time/timestamp patterns

validdate(to_be_tested, <pattern>) shall support a broader range of date/time patterns. in an ideal world any combination of yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mi, ss, 9999 with any kind of separators (,-;:_.+/\?`^?) are supported. as a minimum the commonly ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Regular expression support in filters

Need the ability to use regular expressions to build data set and job output filters.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

OSAM Encryption for 4K or smaller blocksizes

OSAM Encryption (VSAM linear data set) currently has a minimum blocksize of 4K which would inhibit our ability to implement pervasive encryption. A large proportion of our databases have blocksizes smaller than 4K and more are moving in that direc...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Add PTF HOLD information UI66571

In the HOLD ACTION of UI66571, it described that FMNPRINT and FMNIN DD were added by this PTF.But there is no description about the impact for customer's JCL.Our customer already use FMNPRINT and FMNIN DD on their JCL as user's definition. So it a...
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

file manager and compressed smf records

if editing or browsing smf file records add the ability to recognize if the records contain smf compressed data and uncompress it before presentation
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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