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Produce message for C:D waiting excessive amont of time for dataset allocation request

All Connect:Direct copy step will fail when it is waiting for a dataset allocation request to complete. This mostly will happen if dataset is migrated or is resided on tape. Produce a message for a specific process/dataset if allocation request ha...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

image file transfer through z/OS Connect inbound scenario

I submit this RFE on behalf of JIM (Jabatan Imigrisen Malaysia) per customer request. JIM have requirement on image file transfer through z/OS Connect with inbound processing.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS TG - ECI status request - support for DSS CTG feature

Hello,as described in the PMR we need support for querying status of a CICS server group defined in CTG. Currently ECI status requests supports only querying of individual CICS server.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

zUnit to be available on VSC & CRW

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Ability to customize AD report/graphs selection

In the Analyze Client, there are a number of reports that our developers would never use (example: ADABAS reports) that always appear at the top of the list.It would be nice to be able to order that list and/or hide items on the list so that the r...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Expiration of Output Messages

Currently input messages to transactions can be expired with the use of EXPRTIME.Output messages have no such option to expire old messages. Having the option to expire old output messages, either globally or for specific Lterms or Tpipes, would b...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

Docker Container in Cics

After the last CAF I have thaught a while about running multiple images/Platforms in a Cics Region. Now I think the only good solution for this, also what would bring multiple value to cics would be, to be able to run docker images in cics. And wi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

XML Processing Support

As XML is a defacto standard for distributed enterprise application communication, EGL should provide complete in-built support for XML processing. This includes parsing, validating, transforming, querying XML documents. Currently EGL only support...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Consideration of IMSTMT files during make projects

When we add an IMSTMT file to a project (already existing and built) that does not include one, the "make project" doesn't take it into account. So, we are obliged to do a build, which takes us out of our automatic project update process.However, ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration