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Monitoring Agent for OpenStack enhanced to support v3 API

Monitoring Agent for OpenStack doesn't currently support v3 API connections. The version of OpenStack that is being used at my location is running the v3 API, as a result we are not able to benefit from the monitoring functionality provided by the...
over 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add clean-up of bad/orphan recoreds to REPAIR.RECON

REPAIR.RECON needs to be able to clean up bad/orphan records - especially orphan'ed LOGALLs. See 58537,L6Q,000 for details. We had LOGALL record from 2005. The CLEANUP.RECON doesn't get rid of the orphan & currently IMS 14's REPAIR.RECON will ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Support for Session ID caching in IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adaptor

We need IMS TM Resource Adapter to add support for TLS/SSL session reuse in order to reduce CPU consumption related to large numbers of full TLS/SSL handshakes. When the IMS TM RA uses TLS/SSL to protect its connections to IMS on z/OS, it appears ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

COBOL ability to read ESDS datasets by RBA

Add the ability for Cobol to read ESDS datasets by RBA (Relative Byte Address). If the above is added, you should also add the ability to return (or know) the RBA when data is written to an ESDS dataset.
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

CBAC VSAM DATATABLES

Add full support for VSAM FILES defined as datatables.
over 8 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Connect / Disconnect (Logon / Logoff) from FM and FA plug-in

Allow a user to Connect to a system from the Systems Information view in the File Manager and Fault Analyzer plug-in.
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HWSJAVA0 buffer expansion

Provide a means for the IMS Connect message handling exit HWSJAVA0 to request additional buffer space. IMS Connect provides a documented mechanism for a message handling exit to request additional output buffer space by setting EXPINI_BUFINC. HWSJ...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Show named loops in OutlineView

RationalDeveloperForSystemZ/PLI-Source/OutlineViewCurrently named loops (e.g. loop_csr_fpks: do forever;) are not shown in the outline view, is there any intention to change this behaviour in future releases of RDz?It would be nice to have an extr...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

CICSPLex to be configured to distribute workload on percentage basis

Requesting to add new CPSM algorithm that allows us to distribute workload to target regions based on percentage similar to Sysplex distributor.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Host On-Demand - Provide Import on HTML Java Web Start Model

The "import" function is not available when using the html model with java web start.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

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