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Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) should use RACF EJBROLE to associated roles with a userid when the DWC running under z/OS (zliberty)

Currently DWC uses an internal DB2 database to associate roles with userids, and it allows RACF userids and passwords to be used at logon time but when assigning a role to the userid it depends on information in an internal database rather than ge...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Sample using C++ Foundation Classes with Containers

I could not find a sample using C++ Foundation Classes for CICS using container.I really need a sample code using containers
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Double click on a Special Name should show markers where the special name is being used

When you double click on a variable in a program, IDz shows you where it is used in the program (small yellow rectangles next to the right hand scrollbar - see attachment 1). But when you double click on a Special Name it doesn't show you where it...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Enhance readability/usability of Attribute/Xref Table

The Attribute/Xref Table is a "grey" mass. It contains all data, but is hard to read due to the high density of the data.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Add a way to stop queueing for STOPed transactions (for transaction switching)

When a transactions is STOPped, if you try to call one directly (from a terminal ou from IMS Connect), your requested will be rejected and the request will not queue. But if you make the call to the STOPped transaction from another transaction usi...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Automatic rename of '*' fields when compiling with TEST() option

From the Enterprise PL/I Programming Guide: Any variable declared with an * for its name will not be visible when using DebugTool. Additionally, if an * is used as the name of a parent structure or substructure, then all of its children will also ...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

An increase in the max session limit is needed

We have HOD session sets set up for the Command Center(Operations) with have icons for all the systems within a specific data center, Operations would like to open at least 1 session with each lpar/system in that session set but currently the max ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Expand recordsize in File Control Program for VSAM

Currently you can't have a VSAM record bigger than 32767 bytes because the record size is in a half word in the File Control Program. Expanding the record will allow us to hold more data in a single record. It will allow you to use channel and con...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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