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RDz : Customizing Host Connection Emulator

Some users ask us to be able of changing screen parameters like font/size/colors and adding the ruler on the cursor in the "Host Connection Emulator" as it exists in PCOM (CTRL + Home for the hotkey for the last one cf. attached files for the para...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Batch with 5 severity levels

In the IDz Client you have a choice to switch between 3 or 5 levels. This is under "Software Analyzer" -> "Severity Levels". But if you run a Batch Job you can not configure that you have 5 levels in the Rules Dataset.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

Add support of UTC plus an additional local time date patterns

We would like to have the following three UTC plus an addition local time date pattern supported by the DATETIME and REPATTERN built-in functions: 1) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999S99:99'2) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999Z'3) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999 UTC' 4) '...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Migration assistance for PDS to PDSE

To replace CA PDSMAN many customers will be required to migrate from PDS to PDSE. A panel dialog that will assist them and a batch process for larger migration would assist the end users with this process
over 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Not under consideration

CICS TS GLUE XFCFROUT should pass the UEP_FC_SYSID from REMOTESYSTEM file control definition if SYSID not specified

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS users collecting dependency data need to determine if EXEC CICS file control requests are function shipped to a remote system. If the EXEC CICS file control command specifies the SYSID(xxxx) parameter, the CI...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

batch Programs called through SYSIN

Kindly refer case for example of batch programs called through control sysin.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

"false" U0240

z/OS only allows one STIMER per task (TCB) so when an application program is setting his STIMER it negates the STIMER that IMS has already set and this could lead to an U0240 abend which is not a real one because the proclim has not been reached. ...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Support CICS / DB2 command in IDz Data Flow diagram

The "Data Flow" feature introduce in IDz v14 should support CICS / DB2 command. This significantly reduce the value of this feature.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs full "import/export" capability

CICS Explorer should have the ability to retrieve/"download" bundle definitions (in fact, all definitions) from a live, running region (presumably from the CSD or CPSM repository) in a format that would allow the bundle to be edited/revised and re...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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