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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 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Maintain good compression ratio for insert after load in BLU automatcially without unload and reload

We usually insert data to the same table daily and may be housekeep data from the table daily after retention period.Update will be less frequent but we found that update in column-organized table takes very long time due to the insert+delete oper...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

ZUDFM entry do display program/relation...

Our RECOUP procedure includes a "ZRBKD DISP ALL" entry to have a view of our descriptors in the TPF log, but today most of our databases use DBDEF instead of RECOUP descriptor. We would appreciate an entry like "ZUDFM DEF REC" which combines ZUDFM...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Extend the Impact Report to allow starting from a 'File'

The impact report starting from the variable used in a READ statement does not show any link to the variable associated with the file in FILE SECTION. The impact report contains only direct data transfers between variables.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Provide a user ID variable support for MVS Filter strings similar to JES

Currently, our shop sets up multiple filters prefixed by RACF user ID so they are specific to the datasets they create for their own personal dataset members. The filter string for JES is already support &USERID so if they copied a filter it d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

The limit of AUTH TOKEN (panel AOFGCPDO in SA Dialog) should be extended to 16 characters

We are implementing System Automation for z/OS under scope of GDPS/PPRC implementation project. In order to support BCPII we should to set AUTH TOKEN on panel AOFGCPDO in SA Customization Dialog. This field has 8 chars limit. This limitation is hy...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost.Cobol Editor ------------ 1) add one line like DISPLAY "one of the pgm's fields". 2) Highlight a paragraph name right click -> refactor -> Rename and rename. 3) close wi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

TAB function need to update the navigation stack.

The product involved is IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface (TOM) and not OM XE for IMS but TOM isn't in the product list. TAB function should be re-designed to correctly update the navigation stack. In the current design, when you in...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Issue with REPORT SECTION

We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). I am trying to compile one of the program using IBM COBOL compiler,but getting below errors. it seems to me that AIX COBOL does not support REPORT SECTION. Could ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enhance ENQC support and provide greater visibility/alerting into the number of ECBs waiting on events

1) There is no means currently for an application to know how many ECBs are waiting on a resource. This means that applications have only two processing options for ENQC 1) if they get the resource or 2) if they don't get the resource. Additional ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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