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Enhancement to modify the PWFI parameter without restarting the region

Actually, when we want to made some operation on DB2, we have to change the PWFI Status to NO in order to remove the active THREAD and not to keep it. For changing the PWFI status, we have to restart the region. Is it possible to remove this resta...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

IDZ V14.2.0 Browsing a remote sequential file not possible unlike TSO

In Remote Systems view (z/OS Projects perspective), if I open a remote file to edit it, my colleagues can neither browse nor view this file whereas if they work directly with TSO they can read the file in browse or view mode. IDZ displays a pop-up...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

DCLGEN for the IMS Catalog

We need to be able to generate PL/I definitions/includes with the IMS Catalog as the source and the leading system/basis. It should be possible to integrate that type of generation with the software build process.
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Uncaptured wait time for CICS webservices

We are seeing a high uncaptured wait time for webservice attach tasks.This time should be captured and recorded in the CICS SMF 110 Performance class record. An auxtrace has shown that the uncaptured time is spent suspended waiting for resource 'R...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Empty results form DB2 query should show column with no entries like previous data source explorer

If you do a query that returns no results there is no visual notification of that fact.
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG to fully support OPT(2) or OPT(3)

When the PL/I compiler is performing optimization, it has the ability to move statements in the resulting executable. When this happens, the backwards traceability to the actual written source statement is lost. The information is avaiable in the ...
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

iDz 'Debug Configurations' option does not work on JCL that is based on JCL procedures that has more than one step

We have found out that when using ‘Debug Configurations’ option ‘z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL’ we cannot get it working when JCL itself is based on JCL procedures if there are more steps in the JCL.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration