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USE EXEC SQLIMS with CCSID 1390

One of the three mega bank in Japan requires to use EXEC SQLIMS language support with CCSID 1390. EXEC SQLIMS language support is indispensable for their on-going project.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for Function shipping over MRO

This requirement is raised on behalf of CEB. CEB is under threadsafe change and find out that there are too many TCB switches in a transaction as Function shipping over MRO API are non-threadsafe. So they need function shipping API are threadsafe ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Variable number of containers in .sar

We have many programs allocating a variable number of containers (we identified programs where this occurs in output , but it could happen in input as well). All these containers are identical from structure point of view, their number and their n...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need a field (attribute), of the TASK resource table, which allows me to have the CPU time of a "THREADSAFE" task.

In a threadsafe application, all DB2 Requests stays on L8 TCB.The cputime is only going to get updated when we come off the L8 TCB. (If it were a quasirent applicatoion and switched back to QR after every DB2 request, the cputime would be accumula...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

COBOL-JAVA interoperability via JNI: use DirectByteBuffers and avoid copiyng data between COBOL workarea and Java byte array

The biggest hit we expect from DBB is that memory does not need to be copied between COBOL workarea and Java byte array Detail are described in the attached file
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession Danish language Support

We have 2 customers using Supersession, where we have translated all relevant panels from English to Danish. What we have found is there is often PTF's which update these panels we've updated, so we need track changes to these panels via SMP/E use...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Reference Modification Abend if Lenght is a Not a Positive Integer

If the calculation of the length in a reference modification is zero or negative, there could be unpredictable/unexpected results. Due to our un-comfort with these unpredictable results, we'd like to see an abend, at runtime, when the length is ze...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity

Need of ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity When using ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ the list returned by APi is to large and too detailled.Could you add filters to help us to list available image ...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Restore to last session list view

We would like an option (at user level) in order to be able to restore the last session list displayed with the cursor positioned on Current session without changing the order of sessions (as KLSOPTSH does)
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

MRD( Multiple Release Detection) enhancement

Requesting two enhancements to the MRD ( IBM for the Multiple Release Detection package) The first request would be to make the timestamp more granular for the release data by changing it from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss. The second request would be to have...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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