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PREPROCESSOR EXTENSIBILITY

PREPROCESSOR EXTENSIBILITY relies on source code and preprocessor code. Customer must specify the changes by line and column number. IBM has access to rational functions. The preprocessor extensibility can be done automatically by having a rationa...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SACK support on zTPF

Support TCP Selective Acknowledgement option (SACK)
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Improve ++INCLUDE preprocessor by setting variables IBM.OPTIONS through PL/I importer preferences

The PL/I Importer supports ++INCLUDE preprocessor if PP(INCLUDE('ID(++INCLUDE)')) compiler option is specified as the customer specified it on the remote. But it can not be specified in the preference (Windows -> Preferences -> Importer -&...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Accept commands from service processor

zTPF should accept commands from the service processor. Under zVM, the CP SEND CP <zTPF guest> VINPUT VMSG <zTPF command> causes an error on the zTPF console: HCPPCX6531E The operating system will not accept commands from the service p...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Request that we wish to implement the re-run function of validation processing

Sometimes validationCheck processing may result in an error. In previous versions, it was possible to manually re-run. I am in trouble because I can not re-run in the latest version.Please create the following mechanism;When the validasion fails, ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Product Manager

Paypal currently sends data to IBM Inflight(Sterling commerce) for creating digital invoices.We don't have any visibility at Paypal side as to how many invoices were failed or rejected in IBM systems. We need an acknowledgement back on the invoice...
over 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide the option to make new RENT Assembler module against SIIS.

Provide the option to make new RENT Assembler module against SIIS(Store into Instruction Streams). Upward compatibility disappears in terms of performance by SIIS.On z13 sometimes more visible than on z196 because the bigger L2 I- and D-caches are...
over 6 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

HATS to allow extracted data to be designated a data type other than String

Give the HATS macro editor the ability to designate that a field being extracted contains numeric, integer, binary, string, etc. data. And then extend the generation of the Integration Objects and SOAP and RESTful service generation to reflect the...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

Host Graphics Host On-Demand

Correct Host Graphics ability to work properly as in previous versions. I am reluctant to open this RFE since I already have a PMR open to address this problem (06839), but as per management, I will open it.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Request for additional User Exits for ZOLDR ACTIVATE SEL

Below is where we would like the new User Exits to be placed. For zTPF HTTP server support: Just before the application scheduled to process the HTTP input is activated. The HTTP input editor is activated with 2 parameters:tpf_httpsvr_req* tpf_htt...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration