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IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL change in the CDC Management Console for platforms

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL statement changed made on the source system in the CDC Management Console for platforms Right now to debug and detect the exact DDL change we need to look at the source dmts log files on source system. ...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

TPF CACHE STORAGE should use Ready list completion stacking longest IO first to shortest

With HPF (HIGH PERFORMING FICON) and the CPU LOOP interactions with CACHED SOLID STATE STORAGE --- Generally speaking APPs on activation will (likely) incur a cache miss which is slightly longer than a CACHE HIT. At any given time there can be a n...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ADDI does not support Postgres (or PostgreSQL) as a database/ repository.

Request ADDI to support Postgres (or PostgreSQL) as a database/ repository.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

RDz COBOl/JCL Editor: Ability to use REXX like Macros

We come from a TSO/ISPF setup, where we over the years have developed a set of inhouse important macros, which either corrects issues or make changes to the whole program for given issues. We know that we can develop our own plugins, but it would ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz Expanding Snippet functionality

Snippets in RDz offers you the ability to include code templates with or withour variable substitution.Many code snippets requires code inserted in other sections of COBOL or/and could benefit from inline programming logic to make the snippets mor...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

CREATE IMSCON TYPE(PORT) command need MbrName parameter capability

I would like to activate a new PORT for IMS Connect using the CREATE Command. The issue is we have duplicate ports (different LPARS) in the same IMS PLEX. You can see below when I issue the following command that PORT 9000 is defined in 3 IMS Conn...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support non-unique column names within segment

Column names must be unique within the segment. However, for COBOL and PL/I, the field names within a data structure don't have to be unique.Only the fully qualified name - for example, data-name-1 in data-name-2 in data-name-2 - has to be unique....
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support all the variants of zoned decimal that COBOL supports

COBOL supports these variants of zoned decimal:Unsigned, Sign trailing, Sign trailing separate, Sign leading and Sign leading separate.The IMS catalog only supports the Sign leading separate variant.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Support for more command thru COMMAND file for Remote Debugging

For remote debugging using IDz, we can use a COMMAND file, but the commands that can be executed before the program stop in debugger are limited. One of the reason we use the command file is to conditionally stop the program in the debugger based ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries AUTOCONNECT attribute for IPIC connection

Customer hope that TX have AUTOCONNECT attribute for IPIC connection, TS does.
almost 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

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