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Application Discovery Support of Assembler ASM IMS Calls

Customer has assembler programs that accesses IMS database via ASMTDLI calls. Without the support for ASMTDLI, customer would not be able to have a complete view of the IMS database usage.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support tolerant reader principle with z/OS Connect JSON

System: z/OS connect Enterprise EditionUSER needs z/OS Connect REST clients to be tolerant readers by default. currently they are not tolerant readers by default, Object value has to be explicitly mentioned in the OpenAPi file + a Size has to fore...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility

At the moment, the CreatePasswordFile utility requires an interactive console which prompts the user for the password. This idea is about to extend the CreatePasswordFile util and supply a batch mode: The user supplies both the password file locat...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Provide "Batch Execution" feature in File Manager Plug-in

New format Case Number: TS003037937 Provide a "Batch Execution" feature as part of relevant File Manager functions that can be performed using the IDz plug-in, e.g. Data Set Compare. If this feature is requested the FM plug-in will create a JCL de...
about 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit COBOL content assist proposals by user defined type

IDz code assistant proposal includes all declared literals while some of them may not be applicable in the context depending on their type.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Provide easy method to do a migration from a very old zWS release (example 8.6) to a newer one (example 9.5 or 10.1)

Currently, program EQQICTOP cannot be used to migrate FROM certain releases to other RELEASE. For example you cannot migrate from 8.6 to 9.5 in a single run of EQQICTOP, but you can migrate from 8.6 to 9.3 using an invocation of a 9.3 level of EQQ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment

LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment (LCP Manager in the GM Kr controlling systems and SafeGuarded Copies in the GM secondary site) we need to coordinate some additional operations when capturing a new SafeGuarded ...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

TimeBoxing BAQCSTUB in IMS transactions

IMS transactions have high performance with very short process time measured in milliseconds. When they are enhanced to make outbound API calls using BAQCSTUB, they are subjected to latency from the network and the API providers. Currently, parame...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 needs to utilize the memory in the 64 bit address space for business needs and quicker access to data

Humana proposes the following changes to the COBOL 6 compiler OR, creation of a new COBOL64 compiler with these capabilities.1. Make the Compiler capable of utilizing the 64-bit address space to take advantage of the 32 terabytes of memory on each...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for a FICON connection to production disk for Testcpy manager

Remove the requirement for communications over FICON for GDPS TestCopy Manager
about 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration