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Non-display of IBM transactions/programs in CICS Explorer & RD/z (SHARE requirement SSCICS12003)

Provide a check box in CICS Explorer that would allow IBM supplied CICS transactions and programs to NOT show in the appropriate tabs. Looking at programs with CICS Explorer and RD/z shows a "wealth" of IBM provided transactions and programs (whic...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Creation a DFHXQxxxI message to monitor the percentage of "lists in use" in a CF Structure.

Hello, We use Temporary Storage Queue in a shared environment.As we noticed messages monitoring the percentage of entries and elements in use, we didn't notice a DFHXQ...I message for monitoring the percentage of lists in use?This request refers t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Equal amount of IF / END-IF statements

Would be nice to have in Cobol editor syntax check or in software analysis a feature which calculates IF and END-IF statements. A warning or even error in case of not equal amount of those.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 4 Not under consideration

Support multiple versions of DB2 bind

When we upgrade/apply mainteance to TOM, sometimes it requires running DB2 bind and backout is to rebind with old packages. It'll be helpful if TOM can support multiple versions of DB2 bind so we can run different maintenance levels with just STEP...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Additional SuperC returncode for changed data compare

Batch invocation of SuperC (ISRSUPC) currently gives two "normal" completion return codes, 0 for "No differences" and "1" for "Differences found". A third "normal" completion return code of 2 would be advantageous for those cases where there are n...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Not under consideration

Display the dataset where the JCL/Script is acquired.

We currently have multiple source JCL/Script datasets that are linked to WAz. Scheduling is asked to refresh the copy of a JCL/Script in the CP so that it is brought in from a different dataset than normal.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Record Generator not generating DAA-compliant code

Record Generator 3.0.1 does not generate code that would take advantage of the Data Access Accelerator mechanism, even though DAA is true and available to the CobolDatatypeFactory, it generates BigDecimal members. A parameter to control the behavi...
over 4 years ago in Record Generator for Java 5 Future consideration