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Drop & recreate DB2 views only when tables change

Currently the DB2 views are dropped and recreated each time a component is re-installed. Doing so removes security every time an install job is executed. This incentivizes us to update less often because we have to open requests to security to gra...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Enable exclude logic when defining a VGRP to AAM

When defining a VGRP to AAM it is only possible to define volsers and volser masks to include in the definition. AAM syntax should also allow volsers and volser masks to be excluded to simplify syntax.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

suppressChangeEvent on DojoCheckBox and other Dojo-fields

RBD9.5 introduced a property suppressChangeEvent on DojoTextField. This was very useful since we were now able to eliminate a lot of code that would simulate this working when set to true. However, this property seemed to be implemented on text-ba...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

Make "Q"ueryXDR option available on panel VPCPSTA1

In working with z/OS Proxy clients it is often necessary to check on status of individual clients from the "Standard Actions" panel (VPCPSTD1). However, when trying to diagnose problems with hyperswap enablement we frequently need to use the secon...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

ECB Heap Statistics

We found a way to get ECB Heap statistics from the ECB Heap Control Table (EHTC). This requires minor changes to CLHH (CCSTOR) and CMALOC (CTIS). We would like the lab to consider adopting this change. At exit time, looping through EHCT Entries, w...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Add a switch which can toggle set or not those 2 jsse2 providers in HODJSSEImpl

We found the below 2 lines of code in class com.ibm.eNetwork.security.ssl.HODJSSEImpl will impact to other HTTPS connecitons in same JVM. //Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");//Security.setProp...
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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