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Provide CL/SuperSession sample exit for externalizing ICHRRPF group list details

A sample exit is desired for returning if a user is attached to a particular RACF profile. This might not be the profile that authorized the user to access CL/SuperSession itself. RACF stores the group list in the ACEE +x6C currently, after the us...
about 9 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow data from header to be appended to a policy rule

At the moment, you can override some property fields in the service archive with data you specify in the header, or the value in the header with a hard-coded value that is set in the policy file. There is no middle ground functionality to be able ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

XMLCHAR Builtin function to support DBCS

Enhance XMLCHAR PL/I built-in function, to support the DBCS characters. Today it supports only Single byte Alphanumeric, numeric, decimals and String values.
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 6 Not under consideration

ADDI - Automatically provide Project list aftert startup

When starting AD the Project List is empty. Users manually need to provision the list of Projects each time AD is started.This seems a pointless action since all the connection information is present in the IDE. We would like to see the project li...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add filter in Build Configuration and Build Client

Need a filter addition in which we can directly search for the name of a project or a part.In Build Client at the small pop-up that opens to select a project and at the Build Configuration level in the list of projects.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 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 Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

COBOL code quality rules should use the preprocessor

The COBOL code quality rules should check within the code generated by the preprocessor. At the moment (Version 9.1) the preprocessor statements are ignored. They are not checked at all. Please check the COBOL code generated by the preprocessor fo...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration