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propagate end user identity in an SOA environment build on DataPower when calling IMS Connect to invoke IMS transactions

Need to propagate original network ID of end user through SOA ESB to IMS for logging / audit purpose. Original Network ID may be Active Directory, SAML, OAUTH, X.509, etc.. Passing through SOA ESB implemented with DataPower XI50b that ID may be tr...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize color of find matches

allow the user to select a highlight background color on the 'Find Text" preference page (Window --> Preferences --> LPEX Editor --> System z LPEX Editor --> Find Text) where they are currently selecting the check box to "Highlight all...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Unnumber in IDz is very slow & blocks the UI

If a program is relatively large (in this case it's 8000 lines long), then the unnumber option in IDz takes a long time (enough time to go and pick up a coffee) & IDz displays a progress bar that precludes you from doing anything else.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Enhance MakeTPF for TPFAR builds.

Enhance the MakeTPF process to be more of a automated process for TPFAR builds to included the DB2 precompile, the bind and compile. The process exists for .asm files, support needs to be added for c and c++ ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to support multiple Operations for a single Web Service

We currently write Web Services (programs) to support multiple operations for a single web service. We start with PLI structures and using DFHLS2WS, create the WSDL. But we have to manually merge the 2 or more WSDL documents into a single document...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need to support current line selected for MVS Files in COBOL/JCL editor

1) For developing macros and actions based on Menu Manager, it would be great to have access to the current line with highlighted/select text in the editor window for COBOL and LPEX editors. This could allow much more granular actions whenever a u...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Operator action message not shown in IDz

Even though prompting operator action is outside File Manager's control, we need to have some message or indication to the developer that the dataset is waiting for an action from operator. This message could be provided by File Manager or IDz its...
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Best practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX.

Please providebest practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX. Fromhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21642903andhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27022104we can see that Utilization Track...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Move WGTA tables above the 2g Bar

Request is to move the WGTA tables above the 2g bar in order to free up valuable space below the BAR Current allocation is 1.4 million entries today .
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

ZDHST disp tot

The command zdhst when displaying the dumps totals from the logs in the file system results in ( UNABLE TO GET HEAP STORAGE FOR ZDHST COMMAND) way too often. The current process is to use the file(s) within the file system across the LC complex to...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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