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SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

SSL(ATTLSAWARE) support for PROTOCOL(IPIC) in TCPIPSERVICE

IPIC Connections to communicate IIB for z/OS and CICS in different sysplexes, require secured SSL connections if the IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter is specified for the IPCONN resources.AT-TLS can save CPU, but SSL(ATTLSAWARE) for TCPIPSERVIC...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T for development of crypto applications

Invoking the crypto function Unique Key Derive (CSNBUKD) with parameter 'K3IPEK' requires access to Access Control Point (ACP) "Unique Key Derive – K3IPEK" which is disabled by default in the Coprocessor. To enable the ACP it is required to use a ...
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 5 Not under consideration

IBM Debug: Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM,we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of th...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add warning when exporting RSE filters leads to not export all filters

When you export filters for a z/OS connection in Remote Systems Explorer, there must be a warning, if this doesn't lead to export all filters.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

ADDI: Impact analysis between programs

The user specifies at least 2 programs between which the direct and indirect (via other programs) calls could be made. Programs, which are not in the call chain between the indicated programs, are not indicated in the diagram. Other artifacts such...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

CPSM API Threadsafe

CPSM API to made threadsafe, in line with IBM recommendation for customers to write applications using threadsafe techniques.
over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

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