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IBM Explorer for z/OS to accept connection states via other product plug-ins

Host connection state changes within IBM Explorer for z/OS are currently established manually via the Host Connections view. Request that product plug-ins which can establish host connections independently of the Host Connections view be able to "...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

ADDI - CICS orphaned programs to be displayed in graphs

See TS002530599 RE: PMR 92678,004,000 - BofA - Missing CICS Transactions from Graph and Selection lists
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Can Hourglass programs be defined with API(OPEN).

With the current Hourglass CICS program definitions it is possible thatthey will generate significant numbers of TCB swaps for each access toCICS timing facilities once the application programs are defined asThreadsafe ( API(OPEN) ) Find the addit...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Performance improvements for CICS Webservices Assistant

We use the CICS Webservices Assistant to generate wsdl and wsbind files for legacy mainframe applications. Some of these legacy applications use complex and large structures.This results in complex and large wsdls.Generation of a wsbind for such a...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow chmod command in S/FTP session

Requesting chmod to be added as a supported command during s/ftp session, or at least send a success return code back to the sftp client
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to handle Case Sensitive File Names Better

Out of the box, IBM SFG allows two files with same name to co-exist. This is not the behavior we want as we have clients sending us multiple files with same name with updated content and latest files should overwrite earlier files. To fix this, we...
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make RDz can install PDTools plugin via P2

Now we cannot install PDToosl plugin to RDz via P2, it must be installed via IM. We want RDz to support P2 installation for PDTools.
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Unnumber in IDz is very slow & blocks the UI

If a program is relatively large (in this case it's 8000 lines long), then the unnumber option in IDz takes a long time (enough time to go and pick up a coffee) & IDz displays a progress bar that precludes you from doing anything else.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

propagate end user identity in an SOA environment build on DataPower when calling IMS Connect to invoke IMS transactions

Need to propagate original network ID of end user through SOA ESB to IMS for logging / audit purpose. Original Network ID may be Active Directory, SAML, OAUTH, X.509, etc.. Passing through SOA ESB implemented with DataPower XI50b that ID may be tr...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

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