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CESN DFHSNP XCTL to appending user program

Provide CESN DFHSNP on a successful Signon optionally append (XCTL) to a user specified program. The User program to be specified as INITPARM data at startup.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Request to update IBM explorer for zOS to support wildcard filters in middle like AAA*BB*C

During impact analysis, When we try to filter the jobs in Job usage inventory .1. When we use the wildcard as CAU* , it is populating all the jobs where the job name starts with CAU. please find the screenshot. <CAU_Wildcard.png>2. When we t...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for z/OS Connect zconsetup script manual execution after maintenance at IPL

Currently, if maintenance is applied to z/OS Connect EE (zCEE from now on) one needs to manually execute the zconsetup script for it set the variables needed under /var directory for the LPAR. This generates a dependency for customers who have mul...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Overlay the applicationId additionally to the active panels/screens

The previous software Netview Access offered an Option within the configuration to overlay the applicationId additionally to the active Panel, for example ISR§PRIM. The Panel Looks like Line 1 - Row 2 Menu Utilities Compilers Options Status Help s...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

multiple ADLogin on the same client

currently users can only perform an AD login via a workspace. The ADLogin button remains inactive in other workspaces.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Selection of individual files from a folder

So far, only the full path to the artifacts from which all files are imported can be specified via the API. Particularly in the case of overlapping storage structures, the artifacts must be copied before installation so that they are correctly imp...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add new COBOL statements

We would like to add 5 “new” Cobol statements, which would be similar to this query for COBOL: ACCEPT statement.(dbo.StatementReference.StatementType = 7), where 7 "COBOL: ACCEPT" Here are the 5 statements;4000 "COBOL: DATE_FORMAT"4001 "COBOL: DAT...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

In IMS Recovery Expert, if there is no quiet time, show least busy times.

Currently, IMS Recovery Expert only shows quiet times when the database does not have any inflight Units of Work. When looking at recovery scenarios with Cyber Vault situations, we may have periods of time that we will need to recover to where the...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Add additional report to view the unused variables in a program

Is it possible to see the unused variables in the program? Variables which are just declared and never used in the program. Currently developer can be able to see the unused procs in the program in report "unused routines within program".
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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