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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

Catalog IMS - JCL/BMP/PSB

We would like to have one additional information in the IMS catalog: the link between the name of JCLLIB, the JCL jobname and the PSB used by the BMP.
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol (all version) - DYNAM option, find the entry point first in the loadmodule

When a program is compiled with the DYNAM option, the search for the entry point corresponding to the CALL statement is not performed in the loadmodule, even if this entry point was added during the linkedit by a command INCLUDE: the search is don...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

IDAA support for IMS

Please provide similar function to IDAA for IMS. We need both functions like following. a) Transform IMS hierarchal data to relational data format and load it into IDAA appliance.b) When SQLs come into IMS DB, then route these SQLs to IDAA applian...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Allow text editing in MEM window

In memory window you may not edit the text, only the hex values.Our request is to allow editing the text directly.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

VSAM RLS files should have a quiescestate of UNQUIESCING

When unquiescing a VSAM/RLS file, we would like an interim state of "UNQUIESCING" that indicates that the unquiesce has been issued but has not yet completed. When used with the SET DSNAME NOWAIT option, the quiescestate returned could erroneously...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Use %userprofile% instead of %userdocuments%\.. for creating needed directories

RDz creates an .eclipse folder for default configuration at %userdocuments%\.., which is bad in our case because %userdocuments% points on a networkshare. Windows created an evironment variable for that, called %userprofile%, which should be used ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Cobol Date Functions

Developers use different date functions in most of the COBOL programs. These functions get executed hundreds of millions of times a day in various programs. We have inhouse written product, which may not be efficient and this probably a requiremen...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to create better tags

The WSDL document created by CICS Web Services Assistant DFHLS2WS is not useable "as is" due to some issues with the values chosen for a few tags or element names. The WSDL would be more useful and compatible with other non-IBM distributed tools i...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Enable Software Analyzer features

RDz Software Analyzer currently supports the Analysis Summary report. The report shows Code Quality, Code Complexity, and Code Structure however the values are always set to zero. This request is to enable those fields so as to produce meaningful ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

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