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Improved ability to invoke trigger keys

We are in the process of migrating a customer from CA-TPX to Supersession.The customer is used to switching between sessions using command keys in CA-TPX in various different situations. Users switch sessions from input fields, which can contain d...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Resource Compare Feature

Provide a mechanism to compare resources and highlight the differences. This feature should allow us to compare a resource defined in CICS regions within the same CICSplex and across our environments. The second would require the support of multip...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

Support IDz/Aqua installation process via EPP (Eclipse Packaging Project)

Please simplify the (fresh) installation process of Aqua based Eclipse p2-tools (like IDz, Fault Analyzer, IBM Debugger, ….) . Currently you need to go to GitHub download page ( https://ibm.github.io/mainframe-downloads/eclipse-tools.html ) and th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Database connection there should be filter to see only selected database

Database connection there should be filter to see only selected database not all . Couldn't find any option to put filter . Please find attached screen print. All developer will get benifits.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

ibm_db to be shipped with supported driver

IBM should ship the the ibm_db driver with their Python for z/OS. Underway is a DBA modernization initiative where we are bringing in modern tooling and languages such as Python for z/OS and in particular the ibm_db library for communicating with ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support for configuring only parts of HAO due to customer environment.

In panel KLHXHBTL only are activated the 'helpdesk logon receiver' and the 'helpdesk cmds' receiver (HDO1). HDO2 is inactive in all cases. This configuration was done by IBM due to customer requierements. That is, HAO is actiated partially.
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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