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AD to provide support for REXX

Provide support for REXX at the same level as COBOL and Pl/I.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

HCE keyboard setup/mapping

Add a setting so that we can modify the keyaboard mapping more than exsiting today. For example "Attn", "Esc", "Enter", "New line" and more.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

new suppress prefix

The compiler has a lot of useful informations and warnings.Some of this couldn't be eliminated at time - therefore the message list get longer and longer - the risk to overlook a new message increase.As developer I want to accept a message for a s...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Create a suffixed DFSVC000 after IMS SYSGEN

Hi, In a SMP configuration with several IMS in the same target files.All the IMS have not the same IMSID in IMSCTRL macro the last IMS that has been SYSGENed, overrides DFSVC000 (SDFSRESL library) with its own IMSID A suffix membre for DFSVC00* wo...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Restore to last session list view

We would like an option (at user level) in order to be able to restore the last session list displayed with the cursor positioned on Current session without changing the order of sessions (as KLSOPTSH does)
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for function shipping over MRO

We are looking to use threadsafe to improve the throughput in our CICS regions. We keep coming to the need to have function shipping threadsafe using MRO (XM/XCF). We have tested using IPCONN, as recommended, and find that the resource usage is un...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Programmatic prerequisite/configuration checker for Application Discovery Server machines

Paraphrasing colleague Roberto C after a recent issue where a WinSrv 2012 R2 machine didn't have certain Windows patches and didn't have Visual C++ components that were apparently required by Application Discovery Build's installation program for ...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Automatically Unlock keyboard and Reset X SYSTEM

Add functionality to automatically unlock keyboard and reset X SYSTEM. Utilizing this will decrease the number of times users will need to manually reset their host emulator when navigating some applications.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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