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Not allow user handle abend for AICA

We are interested in an option or mechanism at CICS system level to withdraw HANDLE ABEND issued by any user application program at run time for AICA transaction abend code. This function would to prevent user routine continue to be processing as ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Emulator requests color

When in the host emulator we need to have the ability to be able to change colors was we can in windows.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic invocation of Fault Analyzer from IDZ Debug

The users would expect Fault Analyzer to be invoked dynamically when debugging under IDZ Debug and an Abend occurs. It would be an expected continuation of the Debug process.
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add additional Filter for capacity in File Manager option 3.5

Add device model to selection criteria for option 3.5 as follows: File Manager Display VTOCCommand ===> blank Display data set list P Print data set list V Display VTOC list PV Print VTOC list PC Print VTOC and data set listEnter one or more of...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

BNPP - Usage - Library Variant and MAF extractions

MAF extractions should take into account the usage and the library variant according to the rule implemented today in PACBASE.
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Add additional properties to policy rules

Today with z/OS Connect policy files you can only use headers to make a decision on which CICS transaction and connection to use. What we are needing is a way to use the headers and other information such as the API operation, path, method e.g. to...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Option "Source -> Validate JCL" within IDz JCL editor does not work with tape datasets

Currently if there is a tape dataset used in the JCL job, this JCL editor feature "Source -> Validate JCL" does not support that. When using this option tape dataset is reported as "dataset not exist", but it clearly does, as it is tape and it ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Propagate JWT in a chained API flow between inbound to Z and outbound from Z

We need the JWT that is verified with Liberty & z/OS Connect for an API with CICS/IMS service provider to be carried forward or propagated when that provider becomes an API requester to another Rest API on another platform.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Update compile procedures to 2017

Decades ago JCL was enhanced with "if-then-else" statements. Would it be possible to use this in IBM provided compile jobs?
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

[RPP] DDL with clause "NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT constant"

In RPP, select option 'P' in CMS456 in dataaggragate -ce generate a clause NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in the .ddl. NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in DB2 allows inserting rows in a table without specify the value. A column with type integer or decimal would be ...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

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