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zD&T Webserver enhancement - Add a feature to capture a list of reply commands

The IPL of our LPAR copy require a manual intervention (through the console) to issue reply commands in order to complete the IPL successfully. Can there be an option in the zD&T Webserver to configure each Image with the option to capture cus...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

specification error in API POST body results in token validation error, while we expect a specification error

To test one of our API's we deliberately changed the body of an API POST. When doing that the customer gets an HTTP 500 error and ZCEE signals a security related error message (token validation error) while we expect a specification error.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

User & Admin groups update into ADI via dashboard

Every week we create several new user groups for each ADDI projects we onboard. Currently we have to manually add user and admin groups by updating teamserver file and restarting ADI server. Due to GIS issues we want to refrain from this manual wo...

Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Web Service Assistant for Enterprise PLI

When generating wsdl/wsbind files with the Webservice Assistant DFHLS2WS for all of our business services written in PL/I, we receive the message DFHPI9565E. DFHPI9565E: ALIGNED and UNALIGNED keywords are not supported for an entire structure. Thi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Flag SQL Statements not followed by a test of SQLCODE

The SQL coprocessor should flag any EXEC SQL Statement which is not followed by a test for return information in variable SQLCODE.
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration