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Thai Code page support for HACP EE

Thai customers need support for thai code page in HACP EE
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Functionality already exists

allow for zd&t docker image to be loaded from a repository

The customer would like to load the zd&t docker image from a repository of their choosing.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

More shortcut on record filtering to have a faster way to get the output data

Cause : to have a faster way to get the output data Requirement : when select option 1 (to view the file), requires the ability to straight away enter the dataset name to be browsed, the copybook to be use and the selection on one single screen as...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

New extended mnemonics needed for branches/jumps following TMLL and friends

New extended mnemonics are needed for "branch/jump [not]mixed" instructions to be used following the newer Test Under Mask instructions. The older TM instruction never sets CC=2, so the older branch/jump [not]mixed mnemonics (JM, JNM and similar) ...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS Sysprog

IRLM deadlock report does not include a Unit of work (UOW)or Unit of recovery (UOR) token for the transactions involved in the deadlock.Application programmers often request for input messages of the transaction when investigating the deadlocks. B...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 2 Not under consideration

CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

64-bit support for C/C++ under CICS Transaction Server

One of our customers is creating a C/C++ application for financial services (broker). This application is running in a CICS transaction environment. Because of high transaction workload we are suffering storage constraint because C/C++ is still li...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Change ASMA033I severity from 0 to 4

Our product requires 241 separate assemblies. When reviewing a gen, we take closer looks at any assembly having a non-0 completion code. ASMA033I errors currently are SEV 0. That means that they get missed when a GEN is reviewed. If they were chan...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Future consideration

Permit named PUSH/POP statements

When the assembler reaches an END statement, and there remains unPOP'd PUSH USINGs, it issues ASMA138W . Well, in large complex assemblies, finding the unPOP'd PUSH or PUSHs can be rather a challenge. In my own coding, I have solved that by replac...
over 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration