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Individual setting of the content of //SYSJAVA

When you compile a COBOL class definition, a Java source program that contains a class definition that corresponds to the COBOL class definition is generated in addition to the object file. We need an option to interact with the output in SYSJAVA ...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Allow suppression of 'F'alse alerts from Situations.

As documented for Tivoli/Omegamon situation alerts:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/om-shared?topic=tos-how-write-message-console-situation "The message is produced when the situation is true (T) or false (F)." We would like an option to supress the 'F...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support 66 levels in zUnit

66 levels are valid COBOL definitions for working storage and linkage areas, and prevents zUnit from generating test cases for programs containing these.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Very Large Tables and their usage

Need a better understand of what these very large tables, such as the DB2_ENDUSER_* tables, are used for given they use 1000s of Cyls of dasd. With a better understanding of usage customer can decide if the tables are even needed. And drop them if...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SSL(ATTLSAWARE) support for PROTOCOL(IPIC) in TCPIPSERVICE

IPIC Connections to communicate IIB for z/OS and CICS in different sysplexes, require secured SSL connections if the IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter is specified for the IPCONN resources.AT-TLS can save CPU, but SSL(ATTLSAWARE) for TCPIPSERVIC...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

ZD&T for development of crypto applications

Invoking the crypto function Unique Key Derive (CSNBUKD) with parameter 'K3IPEK' requires access to Access Control Point (ACP) "Unique Key Derive – K3IPEK" which is disabled by default in the Coprocessor. To enable the ACP it is required to use a ...
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 5 Not under consideration