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Enable specification of proxy for outbound TCP/IP connections (GSE requirement GGCIC10003)

For outbound TCP/IP connections, i.e. web services or http-connections in most companies a firewall/proxy restricts access to external services. To specify a firewall/proxy in the current implementation an XWBOPEN-exit is needed. Solution does not...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

OTMA settings should be in effect and honored when IMS starts to accept OTMA traffic

Customer is running with AOS=Y, but he has found that after an /ERE consequent to a IMS Cancel some CM1 Synclevel Confirm SL1 Messages were Enqueued with Affinity to FE IMS for a SERIAL PSB Transaction.Input messages arrived from MQ before restart...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

COBOL error messages diversification about INITCHECK use

Customer would like to differenziate message IGYCB7311-W based on tipology of field definition. That is a different message number for Disp-Num, Packed-Dec, Display, Binary, Disp-Num-Edit. The reason of this request is that customer would like to ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Cobol data type that corresponds to Db2 for z/OS DECFLOAT data type

In Db2 for z/OS you can store data as DECFLOAT. There is no corresponding Cobol data type, so when using DECFLOAT in Cobol programs we have to cast between DECFLOAT and a Cobol data type that does not intirely.We need a Cobol data type that corres...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

COBOL 6.2 behaviour: during NUMCHECK, "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION

Customer uses compilation parameter NUMCHECK(ZON(NOALPHNUM), ABD) as suggested by IBM, but he would like that DISPLAY statement would be escluded by ABEND. Customer would like the "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION not on other instruction. DISP...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

RDz EST to support UTF8 request codepage

In Create New Service Interface, the current RDz EST client cannot support UTF-8 request code page if the corresponding copybook field is defined as PIC X
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Micros-patterns "iterate" et "leave" pour remplacer op?rateurs GB et GT

Bonjour, Avec la disparition du Langage Structur?, la notion de niveau de fonction/sous-fonction est moins apparente pour le d?veloppeur qui travaille surtout avec le code Cobol. Je propose la cr?ation de deux nouveaux micros-patterns pour g?rer l...
over 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Provide z/OS Health Checks to validate install and functionality

RDz should come with z/OS Health Checks that validate that RDZ is functional so that usability is automatically validated after every IPL or restart.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Support the use of IWS Occurrence date in the ARCTIME parameter

Output Manager supports an Archive SYSOUT Configuration Parameter called ARCTIME. The purpose of this parameter is to designate the date and time to be associated with a given instance of output. Supported options are Capture, Job and Dataset. Whe...
about 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DFHIR3785 CSNC abended

With current design, when message DFHIR3785 is issued, CSNC is abnormally terminated with a system dump. All tasks using MRO links to other systems are abnormally terminated. CICS also abends all tasks in other CICS regions that are currently comm...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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