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Clean up after search

After doing a search, when deleting results from the "Search" view, the last search result is always left behind
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste a path into the edit source lookup

Edit source lookup for remote folder is a "graphical interface" (i.e. a browse tree) at the moment... want a way to enter a remote folder as a path (i.e. need a text field)
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

CICS Web Services Assisant.

From the created COPYLIB member: * Comments for field 'OriginSPLC': * This field represents the value of XML element * '/RateRankRequest/RatingRequest/ShipHeaderInfo/OriginSPLC'. * XML data type: 'string'. * XML 'whiteSpace' facet value: 'preserve...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Issue with Occurs clause Variables

We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). We see some initialization errors coming from mx20f program while compiling with IBM COBOL compiler. Initialization is not possible on occurs clause variables in ...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Not under consideration

DB2 records comparison

Support DB2 records comparsion, between the same table under different schemas. Record comparison is only supported for File, but not DB2 table rows.
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Detect attempts to extend size of Application Stack storage beyond ESPS limit

Attempts to extend Application Stack storage beyond the ESPS limit are not currently detected or handled directly; the stack pointer is set to what should be the new address, but the storage is not mapped. Processing in this scenario inevitably tr...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

New builtins SELECTVALUE and SELECTWHEN

based on builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) we want to have two new builtins for select-functionality:SELECTVALUE(expr, value1, result1, value2, result2, ... , otherresult)SELECTWHEN(whenexpr1, result1, whenexpr2, result2, ... , otherre...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Host Connect Custom Cipher should be a drop down and not require the user to type in full cipher name

The Host Connect Emulator custom cipher selection requires the user to type in the entire cipher name likeTLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA or SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA.There should be a drop-down selection with the supported versions.In addition,
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically install CICS SVCs and LPA and Linklist modules to an LPAR with CICS running

With CICS TS 5.1 it is possible to dynamically install the CICS SVC i.e. no IPL is required to install the 5.1 SVC. However, this can only be achieved by shutting down any CICS regions running on the LPAR, installing the SVC, LPA and LINKLIST modu...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ask for CICS file OPEN in Read Update/Write/Del statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when a file is open under CICS in Read/Write CICS open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We woul...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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