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Flow User credentials between TOR/AOR following CRTE command execution

Case TS008524302 (Defining a TOR/AOR connection definition) identified our need to configure “TXSeries for Multiplatform V9.1.02” RHEL Linux installation to support both a Terminal Owning Region (TOR) and Application Owning Region (AOR) was identi...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enable concurrent use of replication and vaulting in CTC

CTC support replication as a mechanism by which the local tape pool is replicated to a remote location for high availability. CTC also support eVaulting which moves a local tape to a remote location for business recovery. Once a tape has been repl...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Require support for Cobol 6.3 function FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE

Cobol function CURRENT-DATE is manipulated by Hourglass but function FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE is not. Please refer to PMR ID TS009579530 for more details.
over 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

ZMATC enhancements to modify config files

Introduce a new MODIFY parameter to the ZMATC command such as: ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname VALUE-"value string" ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname REMOVE This command would have the following behaviors: It would modify the s...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SuperC Option to Report Entire Record and Highlight Differences

A SuperC comparison will by default report ~90 bytes of the record containing a difference, or ~190 bytes using an existing option. We would like an option that allows the entire record to be shown within the existing report width, wrapped to as m...
over 5 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Future consideration

Add an isNumeric() test to record classes

There currently is no straightformat way for generated record classes to check whether a byte pattern contains valid numeric data (in the sense of the COBOL "IS NUMERIC" test). However, this is often needed: Since COBOL does not really have the no...
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Need to have typical z/OS System Programmer commands available in E3270UI

Mostly all the commands related to a z/OS System Programmer should be available directly in E3270UI. To achieve this goal it would be sufficient to have a system console directly in E3270UI with different authorities capabilities (for example for ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow to specify a sender email address for zAware

Development confirmed that zAware email feature automatically replaces the sender email address with NO-REPLY. This is a problem for most mail servers as they reject emails without a properly qualified sender email address. Please allow the user t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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