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BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / All components 2 Not under consideration

change EQQYCOM to support rmode=any

IEW2646W 5383 ESD RMODE(24) CONFLICTS WITH USER-SPECIFIED RMODE(ANY) FOR SECTION EQQYCOM CLASS B_TEXT. we want to use standard linkage setting rmode=any and amode=31
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Option to have spaces treated as zeros at Runtime

Our COBOL V6 migration has been painful and slow. Much of this due to 'invalid data'. The biggest pain for our applications folks are when copy books and linkage areas initialized to spaces at the 01 level. To code around this in V6 is a lot of ex...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
9 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ITOM parallel sysplex high availability

Provide capability for ITOM capture proc to run on any system in the sysplex without manual updates to parms
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014COBOL Decimal Floating Point Support

Submitted By: 3100012QSB #56Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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