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Enhance the audit and debugging capability of IMS Enterprise Suite for Development

Request to have the following functionality added in the IMS Enterprise Suite for Development (specially as used in the ZConnect/IMS Mobile context): 1. View server log/trace data. 2. Store source COBOL copybook in registry as part of service meta...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile Feature pack misc functionality requests

Request for the following functionality in Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile feature pack: 1. Support service stub creation that will use a sample test data to be returned. 2. Set user defined service URI or remove ?action=invoke in service URI. 3. Service ...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Access Traditional TPF Databases with MongoDB API

Enhancement to z/TPF MongoDB API to accept and process mongo functions against non-TPFDF databases by utilizing the tdbi collection descriptor.
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Platform Versioning

We just installed a Platform in the System Aproval Test Environment. Afterwards we tried to make some changes and this was not really funny. First we had to disable all Applicaiton, then we had to disable the platform and other not really nice thi...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support for content assist for host variables in EXEC SQL statements

I am opening this RFE on behalf of Danske Bank. Currently, there is no content assist for host variables within the context of an EXEC SQL statement in the PL/I source.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

DEDB ALTER REPLRAND - no change to randomizer name

We can replace an active DEDB database randomizer while the DEDB database remains accessible online by using the REPLRAND function of the DEDB alter utility. Current support of this function requires users to change RMNAME parameter on the DBD, DB...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Add column search filters to Data Elements View

We'd like to have more advanced search filters in the Data Elements View: Currently you're only able to search within the "Name" column but we'd like to search / filter also in other columns like "Declared in" etc...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS command needed to verify "SHARED" storage addresses

A need to validate a "SHARED" storage address currently forces us to verify the address using SM domain's SCA and SCE control blocks. Our goal is to eliminate the needed to chase Storage control block SCE chains to validate a SHARED storage addres...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Application Performance analyser (APA) - Cross region and cross LPAR ability for CICS transactions

A CICS transaction can execute across multiple regions in the same LPAR or in other LPARs. It would make analysis more complete if all of the performance data including CICS, DBMS(s) and file accesses etc could be shown for a single transaction re...
over 9 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Perform optimizations based on __attribute__((__malloc__))

Currently, __attribute__((__malloc__)) does not work as documented in the compiler docs. The documentation infers that the compiler performs certain optimizations when using __malloc__ attribute. However, it appears that the compiler simply tolera...
over 9 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Not under consideration

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