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Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

PROCLIM cputime with a higher degree of accuracy

In case of non-FP transaction, PROCLIM cputime parameter must be specified in seconds. But, if cpu resources are very limited, clients wants to specify it more accurate like hundreds of seconds.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Keep Array Counter Fields in Response

The Array Count-by option to limit the number of records in an array provides a large performance increase, however there is a trade-off that you always lose that field from the data area itself. I request that the field used to count the number o...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

zUnit: Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

TLS 1.3 Support for PersonalCommunications for TN3270-Access

BSI Germany (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) wants us to switch to TLS 1.3 for network security.IN PCom V15 there is TLS 1.3 mentioned, but only for HTTPS-Connections. So please add support for Personal Communications when usi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM for NO_DASD env.

Since GDPS V4R1 with the new NO_DASD GDPSMODE it's recommended to set the GEOPLEX option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM to '1'. If no KSYS is defined you have to define a Dummy system.This is not user-friendly because the user see always that (Dummy)-system in...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Specify product specific message id instead of BPXM023I with JZOS API MvsConsole.wto

Z Digital Integration Hub is a Java based strategic hybrid cloud integration product on z/OS for realtime information flow between z/OS core systems and hybrid cloud application. We are currently implementing the support for STOP, DISPLAY and SHUT...
6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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