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Be able to change margins in PCOMM

We have users that are copying and pasting text to/from an CICS-application, but the almost missing margins make it harder. The margins are not always that small, it seems to happen with text. An example is the system log in SDSF in z/OS. Only the...
9 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

CPSM API Timeout/Retry if MAS cycling

CPSM API programs throw an error if a MAS is cycling since the state of the MAS is indeterminate and CPSM times out waiting for a response. The timeout error causes our API program to fail. We would like the CPSM API to be more tolerant of transit...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we ca...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
10 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

GDPS - Improve Master-Switch

The master function of a GDPS/PPRC K-System was not moved.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 1 Not under consideration

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Allow FPBP64STAT parameter to be updated via PROCLIB

Currently FPBP64STAT is only updateable via type-2 command meaning it is lost through a coldstart. We would like for this parameter to have an equivalent proclib parameter which can be set, to maintain the setting through cold start.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration