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Cics Liberty shared library bundle support

To speed up starting times of the liberty server in cics it we have to host the included jar files in liberty applications only one time per server -> move them to shared liberty librarys. For this we need a function to deploy a cics bundle wit...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate neighboring statements other than control statements into one box in flowchart graphs.

The current flowchart graph often becomes to busy because all the statements are displayed.It would be better for users of AD to understand the structure of a program if neighboring statements other than control statements (ex if, evaluate, etc) c...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Tags member of PDS by IDZ

IDz "tags" every members with the user of STC (RSEDx) so the dates of last use are not correct as all members of the PDS have the same date, with the same user IDZ must use ISPF modules/calls rather than reading the directory block info directly
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Compare datasets that are true TSO data files (not source files)

Currently developers using RDz 8.0.3 can download source files that have any EBCDIC character and compare the source files. But they cannot compare EBCDIC data sets that contain packed and binary values. Even though the Compare option is enabled w...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

CICS EXIT POINT to INTERCEPT or ALTER userid

We are running CICS TS 5.2. We have an issue that some of our application transactions are being initiated without supplying a user ID, therefore CICS region userid or CICS default user id is used for those transactions. This is not compliant to o...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Email attachments are not saving as separate documents while ingesting Emails through ICC 4.0.1.8

Case ID - TS000885259Product - IBM Content Collector 4.0.1.8 We are doing a mailbox ingestion where we use "EC Extract Attachments" in the taskroute . However if the attachment itself is an email /.msg file , the attachment is not getting saved as...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

IMS Connect Multiple TCP/IP Stack Support

IMS Connect is not able to connect to multiple TCP/IP stacks and because of this we are actually using the IMS Explorer only on our system programmers test environment – otherwise we would have to setup additional IMS Connects on our customers LPA...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 3 Not under consideration

Provide I18N/L10N gettext APIs for XL/C on z/OS

A system level, common, industry standard, platform independent, service is needed to perform internationalization/localization translation services on text strings when running on z/OS. This is needed for both applications compiled to use Languag...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

Workstation Profile Option to disable printing

We need to disallow printing via the Print Screen or Print Graphics. I know that the PCSCMENU.EXE utility allows us to remove the menu entries. However what we need is a single option in the Workstation profile which disables the print function, e...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

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