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Customer would like to place the DD statements in JCL other than programmer name field to specify at JOB level

When customer would like to specify date/time in JCL at JOB level, Hourglass only support to set it in the programmer name filed. However customer currently use the programmer name filed for another purpose. This is the request to provide another ...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Undo is not possible on replace noise words function

When we edit a source within noise words, we cannot undo the action and there is no marker left for us to see the change in the edited file.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

No explicit CLEAR LOAD after stepping in DebugTool

Module, loaded with SET QUALIFY LOAD, disappears after F5 . I set a breakpoint in a module which has to be loaded first. So I made a SET QUALIFY LOAD SECI002 and a LDD SECI002 Now I see the module in the Modules View. After pressing F5, the module...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Option to have EXPRTIME produce WTO

Provide an option to write out a WTO when a transaction expires due to EXPRTIME, in addition to the current option of whether to take a U0243 ABEND or not. We also want to be able to catch all transactions that expire, not just the ones executed v...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

RPP - Segment - impossible to get information out of the tool

Within RPP it is impossible to extract or cut and paste the layout description of a Segment so it could be processed further for Designs or documentation outside RPP. Cut and paste on the Screen is not enabled, thus denying easy Access.When extrac...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway - Improve CICS Request Exit capabilities

To provide a routing logic to send ECI requests to specific CICS TS regions we need to develop a custom CTG CICS Request Exit. We implemented a logic based on the Transid name able to route the ECI requets to the right CICS environment, managing b...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Improve the process to update EXPRTIME

EXPRTIME should not fail as a result of a transaction being scheduled
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

Cob5: Enhancements Compile Listing Option MAP

PP 5655-W32 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 5.2.0 With compile option MAP the total size of working-storage or WSA is not included in compile listing. Enterprise Cobol 4.2 and its predecessors are showing this when compiling with option MAP.Example:...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Support Conversational Transactions on ISC TCP/IP for CICS - (Synchronous)

IMS already support asynchronous ISC TCP/IP for CICS and we would like to use this kind of connections for conversational transactions (synchronous). With this we will change our comunication between IMS and CICS from APPC SNA to TCP/IP.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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