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Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Ability to determine if any CICS transactions have debug session active

Currently there is no way to query if any CICS transaction have debug sessions active
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Change IMS Catalog Definition Exit DFS3CDX0 to make it more user friendly

DFS3CDX0 is used to provide settings and attributes of the IMS Catalog to Batch application programs.It is an alternative to code “xxx” in the JCL of batch jobs for referencing to DFSDFxxx Member in IMS.PROCLIB. Currently all parameters from DFSDF...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to specify two EQAUOPTS datasets in eqaprof.env

Copied from case: Hello, I'm setting up STC EQAPROF and was wondering if you could specify more than one pattern in the variable default_dsname. At the moment it looks like this:default_dsname="É&USERID.DLAYDBG.EQAUOPTS" We would like it to be...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Nested Occurs Depending On (ODO) for JSON Generate

When several "Occurs Depending On" (ODO) are nested into each other, modifying the number of occurence for an ODO during run time change the way the storage is reorganized. We want nested ODO to behave in a way that would generate JSON tables with...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Let Enterprise Cobol Compiler exploit zIIP CPU

Starting from version 5, enterprise cobol compilers have increased the cpu used to compile programs, especially using optimization options of the executables.Offload the CPU used by compilers to zIIP processors at least during the most cpu busy ph...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The use of the symbols is not possible. Please set up.

For the configuration of the CL / Supersession, it is very helpful in various places to be able to use the MVS symbols. Also for programming logon routines and clists
over 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program

There are times when we would like to identify whether a program is in use inside a CICS region(s). Performance Analyzer counts generally are associated with the transaction. We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Pr...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

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