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Possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface"

We would like to have the possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface".This way we can make sure a new "EGL - Create EGL client interface" action is not moving records to other sourcefiles. In the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Improve Site table management to eliminate double management

When defining or changing the site table in SMGM it is necessary to perform the same tasks in both regions, even though in our environment, the IPL attributes are identical for managed systems in both regions.We would like an option to propogate t...
almost 10 years ago in GDPS 2 Planned for future release

Delete statement is not considered by the compiler while build in ADDI.

The reason that the last delete is not parsed is because the statement WHERE CURRENT OF LINK_CSR is not recognized by our parser. delete that appears in the list: EXEC SQL DELETE FROM TBAFOTE_TRN_ECD WHERE BRANCH_NO = :TBAFOTR.BRANCH-NO AND ACCOUN...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program

This is to resolve an issue we raised in Case number TS010545379. We have been asked to raise a RFE to provide a new feature to bring resolution to the issue. The feature is to define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program. From the case accor...
about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

zTPF Operating System Education for Licensed Customers - Support Staff Skills Development

Develop an educational track containing training modules for licensed z/TPF users to assist in teaching how to manage and support the z/TPF system in their enterprise. Initial training modules needs to focus on task management basics and would cov...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / All components 0 Planned for future release

Support Agent Forwarding for TN3270-Connections

We got the requirement to connect to our TN3270-servers via a "control-point" (another Server that behaves like a proxy but records the connection). Example for other text-based connections: For SSH, the software "PuTTY" offers a functionality cal...
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

Add SR.GROUP TO Special Resource security

Please can you add a security check AUTHDEF for the SR.GROUP using GROUP on the SRCOM record. This will allow for granting of access to Application Support Areas using a simple way instead of having to define all special resources to our security ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add Ownership to ETT

Please can you add an owner to the ETT definition. We are busy decentralizing scheduling within the bank and are unable to decentralize the maintenance of ETT Option 1.7.1/2 as the definitions do not have ownership associated with the definition.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Require ability to use TLS with LDAP server from HOD Config Server

The HOD HOMSRV task (Configuration Server) can communicate with an LDAP for configuration and user information but the current solution only allows for non-secure connections. Since this connection will have userids and password flowing it should ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

TN3270 auto-reconnect timer

Implement new timers in Personnal Communications for user to control TN3270 auto-reconnect.1) Reconnect time interval t - When TN3270 connection is dropped, after t seconds, auto-reconnect again.2) For the same TN3270 connection, try n auto-reconn...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Planned for future release

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