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CPSM - Must be able to recover isolated CMAS without restarting address spaces

Currently, whenever a CMAS becomes isolated for whatever reason it is not possible to restore ("un-isolate") the CMAS without restarting one or more address spaces. Similar situations occur whenever a CMAS/CMAS link (MRO) fails for any reason. Rec...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

NOEVENP/NOLXPRF rules suboption. Distinguish between user source program and copy member item definition

To decide to issue a return code 12 or 04 when the IGYDS1348-W/IGYPA3084-W warning occurs, it is necessary to distinguish whether the definition of the data item appears directly in the user source program or was included in the program from a cop...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Special Resource at Application Level

This RFE is opened in conjunction to the old and declined RFE #78363. Special Ressources (SRs) should also be connectable to whole applications (occurences) and not only at operation level.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

IDz DBB user build discovers dependencies only for COBOL and PLI

IDz tool will not auto select the Maclib (copybook library) for ALC modules when trying to run the DBB user build wizard setup. We have to manually select it each time to start the DBB configuration. (Works for cobol but no for ALC)
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Please add Jobname to message EQQ8006I

Hi Development team. Please can you include the Jobname in the message EQQ8006I for the CDP Integration. When people look at alerts they reconcilethe Jobname, and not application id and operation number. Only TWS requires this for it's key.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

WF Micropattern DES=3 LEV=2 in Cobol Screen with 3 index generated as in a batch Program

Hi, When a Segment xxnn has a value in the Table size field of Segment Definition tab (Data Structure doesn’t have a common part Segment), if I insert the WF Micropattern in Working storage of a Screen to declare a table using this segment with De...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Single SingOn for HATS WEB connections. We need it for MIDAS Core banking SSO

Problem description: We are using a WebSphere based banking application Midas Bank Fusion (from MISYS). User do connect to WAS using browser. WAS is using IBM-I for authentication and Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) to integrate with 52...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add LUName and certificate support to TN3270 Basic Client Support

Currently it seems that SuperSession TN3270 Basic Client Support does not support LUName specification. Adding support for LUName would allow for connection to OSA console ports or to specific applications on a TCPIP stack. Adding certificate supp...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration