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Dynamic update capability to WLMSPEC

Currently any change to a WLMSPEC requires that all AORS and TORS in the workload be brought down at the same time, and that is an issue when we are trying to maintain 24x7 availability.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Dynamically called programs as smf data

The cobol 6.4 runtime can deliver a report about the dynamically called programs. It would be nice if this information could also be exported as smf data, so that is would be more easy to run analysis about the usage of programs. Currently in smf ...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Implement CEDA CHECK (e.g. for LIST) to ensure CICS region starts properly

Implement the CEDA CHECK option in CICS Explorer (see http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.resourcedefinition.doc/ceda/commands/dfha4_check.html) to allow for example checking LISTs for consistency
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

PIC X(n) support for binary.

In somme case we are sending/receiving byte buffer. This king of data is typed as byte buffer in java and type PIC X(n) in COBOL. In this case, we need a solution to transfert this kind of data througth JSON to COBOL without conversion.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IDz product

When positioned on a COBOL paragraph name in IDz, I would like to hold down the control key and cause the paragraph name to become a hyperlink. At when the link is selected, a Find command will be implemented, positioning me at the first Perform v...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Missing CICS transactions

There were some transactions which were not getting reflected in ADDI so we contacted UIBM team for the same and they have provided below response.Please find bellow L3 conclusions:- I have started with transaction XF54 that is mapped with program...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Not under consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

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